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2. “Evidence Supports Health Benefits of ‘Mindfulness-Based Practices,’”
Science
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3. “Breast Cancer Survivors Benefit from Practicing Mindfulness-Based Stress Re-

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4. “Don’t Worry, Be Happy: Understanding Mindfulness Meditation,”
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5. “Mindfulness Meditation Training Changes Brain Structure in Eight Weeks,”
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6. I explain this in depth in chapter 5 (key 5) and chapter 6 (key 6). It’s worth taking the time to look back at these chapters at this point.

1. Caroline Leaf,
The Switch On Your Brain 5-Step Learning Process
DVD/Workbook
(Dallas: Switch On Your Brain, 2009).

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Recommended Reading

The concepts I teach in this book cover a wide spectrum,

including years of reading, research, and working with

clients in private practice as well as in schools and

business corporations. If I had to provide all the citations

to document the origin of each fact for complete scientific

scholarship that I have used, there would be almost as many

citations as words. So I have used a little more flexibility to

write this book in a more popular style that communicates my

message as effectively as possible. There are only a few cita-

tions in the actual text that are more general, and the book list

that follows is a list of recommended reading of some of the

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———.
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