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...sustained mindfulness programmes have significantly lower rates of re-offending (Auty et al., 2015)...Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings: 3.1 Experiencing meditation in prison - [Described image] Figure 4 Fleet Maull This is an excerpt from an interview with Fleet Maull (2005), who you read about in ‘Mindfulness’. Here he talks about his journey from...

...sustain effort for a prolonged period, and to do this it needs a considerable supply of energy. Endurance exercise relies on the aerobic energy system, which uses oxygen to convert the body’s extensive store of carbohydrates and fats into energy. When the aerobic system becomes the dominant energy system in exercise, it dictates that endurance becomes the major feature...

...sustain attention for longer, for instance through mindfulness training. There is also evidence that people’s capacity for attention can be worn out or drained by overuse, as well as restored by rest. This is where nature comes in. The earliest research in this area, by Kaplan and Kaplan (1989) compared how well people’s attention was restored by looking either built...

...sustained some damage in the rough and tumble of living, and this can set them on the path to cancer – a risk that increases the longer one lives. But some people are born with corrupted p53 in every cell of their body, and are extremely vulnerable to cancer from their earliest days. Li–Fraumeni syndrome, as the condition is called (it was first reported by Frederick...