Category Archives: Psychology

The MWS Podcast 48: Rubin Naiman on Sleep and Dreams

Meditation, Psychology,

Dr. Rubin Naiman is the sleep specialist and clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of Arizona’s centre for integrative medicine. Dr Naiman is the author of several books on sleep and dreams including Healing Night, Healthy Sleep, the Yoga of Sleep and Hush. He regular blogs on sleep and dreams for the Huffington Post and Psychology Today. He talks about why so many of us are deprived of good quality sleep, in what way we might take some steps to address the balance and how this might relate to the Middle Way.


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The MWS Podcast 46: Frank Ledwith – member profile

Health, Member Profile, Podcast, Psychology

In this latest member profile, Frank Ledwith, a retired university teacher and lecturer, talks about his early life, how his career unfolded, his interest and involvement with Buddhism, the work of Stephen Batchelor and what the Middle Way means to him.


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MWS Podcast 45: Tim Kasser on the role of human identity in meeting environmental challenges

Climate Change, Psychology, ,

Tim Kasser is Professor of psychology at Knox College in Illinois and author of various books on materialism, values, well being and environmental sustainability including ‘The High Price of Materialism’ and ‘Psychology and consumer culture’. He’s going to talk to us today about a book he co-authored with Tom Crompton entitled ‘Meeting Environmental Challenges: The Role of Human Identity’ , how they see this as being often a missing link in environmental campaigning and how this all might relate to the Middle Way.

You can download a free version of the book here


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The MWS Podcast 43: Shauna Shapiro on the Art & Science of Mindfulness

Mindfulness, Psychology, ,

My guest today is Shauna Shapiro who is a professor of psychology at  Santa Clara University, a clinical psychologist and an internationally recognized expert in mindfulness. She’s the co-author of the critically acclaimed book: The art and science of mindfulness: Integrating mindfulness into psychology and the helping professions.   She’s here to talk today about the IAA model of mindfulness, the integration of mindfulness into psychotherapy, the evidence behind the effectiveness of mindfulness and how all this might relate to the Middle Way.


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The MWS Podcast 40: Alison Armstrong on Mindfulness & Compulsive Buying

Ethics, Meditation, Mindfulness, Psychology, , ,

My guest today is Alison Armstrong, who is a mindfulness teacher and researcher and founder of Present Minds. She’s going to talk to us about mindfulness and compulsive buying which began as a research project for her PhD and became a ground-breaking RESOLVE study. She’ll also talk about how all this relates to the Middle Way.

Here’s also an article Alison wrote for the Guardian which gives an overview of the topic.


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