Here are a few articles of interest for today:
“The research was inspired by work on Buddhist monks, who spend years training in meditation. “You wonder if the mental skills, the calmness, the peace that they express, if those things are a result of their very intensive training or if they were just very special people to begin with,” says Katherine MacLean, who worked on the study as a graduate student at the University of California, Davis.”
“The study found that mothers’ disaster-related psychological problems had a stronger impact on preschool children than children’s direct exposure.”