FREDERICK, Md. The Frederick Meditation Center, at 1 W. Church St., top floor, in downtown Frederick, will host Jerry Websters four-week course titled The Power of Being Present: The Four Buddhist Foundations of Mindfulness.

The course will take place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesdays, June 14 to July 12. There will be no class Wednesday, July 5.

The program is open to those new to meditation and mindfulness, as well as those who already established a practice.

According to Webster, the Power of Being Present course is about being open to whatever arises in ones life on the spot. Each week, the course will focus on a different theme, starting with Mindfulness of Body and continuing with such themes as Mindfulness of Effort and Mindfulness of Mind.

Although relaxing is often one of the byproducts of Buddhist meditation, the true purpose is to be present in ones life more fully, being present on the spot rather than being riveted about according to ones hopes and fears, Webster said in a news release.

The course is inspired by Chogyam Trungpas book Mindfulness in Action: Making Friends with Yourself Through Meditation. While it is not required to read the book to participate in this course, some participants might find that the book offers good background. For those who are interested in obtaining a copy, Trungpas book is available at Curious Iguana in downtown Frederick at a discounted rate before the course begins.

Webster serves as the shastri, or head teacher, with the Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Center in Washington, D.C. He began meditation with a 10-day retreat in India with the Burmese teacher Goenka in 1974. Since 1976, he has been a student of the Shambhala Buddhist tradition, and he has taught in this tradition since 1977.

He obtained a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from the University of Maryland. He has taught numerous courses in literature for the University of Maryland and numerous courses in multiculturalism for Montgomery County Public Schools. He has taught English full time in public-school systems for 40 years, beginning with the Peace Corps in Afghanistan in 1973.

During the past year, he has led three full-day weeklong meditation weekends and numerous programs along the East Coast, including programs for Johns Hopkins University, the U.S. Peace Corps, Frederick Community College and the Frederick Meditation Center.

The cost for the whole course is $80. Those interested can reserve their space at FrederickMeditation.com or by calling 240-397-8080.

Cushions, chairs, tea and water will be provided.

View original post here:

Meditation teacher offering mindfulness course - Herald-Mail Media

As we left Sunday meditation class, Sister Hemaxi Patel, the facilities manager, gave us each a cookie and a card with the words, I am a soul. I have a body. As a lifelong resident of the Bay Area, this was far from my first attempt at the meditation rodeo, or in my case, the meditation three-ring circus, featuring chattering mind monkeys. But it was my first try at this center.

The Anubhuti Meditation & Retreat Centers gate sign at 820 Bel Marin Keys Blvd. has piqued my curiosity many times as I passed by. The other day a friend and I decided to try the free Sunday class, because lately weve been experiencing more than our usual level of mental turbulence.

The 10-year-old Novato center, which employs some 20 part-time staffers, is part of Brahma Kumaris, a group committed to the practice of self-transformation through Raja Yoga meditation. They began in 1936 and now have 8,500 centers in 110 countries.

Kumaris believe meditation to be key in creating a peaceful and just world, and that spiritual living is a lifelong 24-hour-a-day practice.

Brother Harsha Madatanapalli, retreats facilitator, began the gathering by asking each of us to set our intention. When he asked me what I sought, I said, predictably, peace. Yes. I seek the inner peace one achieves in an hour and a half of free (love offerings accepted) guided meditation.

The meditation part of the class is about 45 minutes. Madatanapalli guided us to relax our bodies, and after that I didnt hear much else he said. I fought to stay awake, which is the alternate challenge meditation offers me. As usual, I seesaw between my monkey mind circus and narcolepsy. But when the time came to open our eyes, I felt refreshed.

Then Madatanapalli had us walk around the room silently. He is a kind, welcoming soul, and when he asked us to make eye contact with the other 15 strangers in the room, I felt only slightly uneasy; after all, we are presumably like-minded souls, aware that our human bodies are temporary homes.

Though I did not miraculously overcome my meditation hurdles during this brief visit, I left feeling more peaceful than when I arrived, and with an interest in exploring future gatherings. I believe any curious visitor would be impressed by the aura of hospitality.

The center offers a variety of retreats and workshops, including Building Healthy Relationships, Art of Communication and Vegetarian Living, to name just a few. Tuesday evening workshops, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., address different topics each week, such as The How of Forgiveness, Positive People Skills and Emotional Detox.

Advertisement

Interested? The free Sunday session is from 10 a.m. to noon. For information, visit anubhutiretreatcenter.org.

The Novato Art & Wine Festival, our annual street fair, is happening from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 pm. Sunday. Theres food, music and more, stretching a half-mile along downtown Novatos Grant Avenue between Redwood Boulevard and Seventh Street. For full details, visit novatoartwine.music.com.

Free concerts on the green are returning. Finnegans Marin will be selling beverages to accompany your picnic. The concerts are from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Novato Civic Green, 901 Sherman Ave. The first concert is set for June 17, featuring Marty OReilly & The Old Soul Orchestra. Other shows are planned for July 15 and Aug. 19.

The Fourth of July parade is always a Novato favorite, and what better way to start the day than with the 63rd annual Buckaroo Breakfast hosted by the Presbyterian Church from 7 to 10 a.m. July 4 at the Redwood Credit Union parking lot, 1010 Grant Ave. Donations go to the Novato Youth Center, Rotary Books and Art Around Town Foundation.

View post:

Novato: A visit to a meditation center - Marin Independent Journal

WATCH LIVE

Stressed out? Meditation is not just for yogis anymore. Get your morning started right with 4 apps that will help you find your focus.

Often you need to know what type of meditation exercise you need before you start, but the Stop, Breathe and Think app asks you how you're feeling before offering the meditation program that's right for you.

Calm is good for anyone who is stressed out and doesn't have time to meditate. There are special sections for commuters who take trains like the Metro. Some of the exercises are as short as three minutes.

Insight Timer has more than 3,000 guided meditations, music tracks and courses that will help you find your inner peace.

Finally, you can learn how to meditate in just 10 minutes a day with the Headspace app. The app's free introductory series helps you train your mind with 10 ten minute sessions.

Most of the apps are free, but you may have to pay to unlock longer meditation sessions.

Published at 5:33 AM EDT on Jun 5, 2017

Originally posted here:

Fit 4 Summer: 4 Apps to Help You Meditate - NBC4 Washington

By Bruce Hull

Ignoring a disease can ruin your life. For most diseases, people have two choices: cure the causes or treat the symptoms. Take obesity as an example. Two causes are overeating and lack of excercise. People can cure obesity by dieting and exercise or they can treat the symptoms with insulin injections, blood pressure medicines, knee replacements, and other expensive and invasive procedures. The cure requires a bit of self-restraint, but provides other benefits like lower medical expenses, better job prospects, and increased energy levels. Treatment of symptoms costs a lot and often doesnt work.

Like obesity, climate change also has multiple causes. The primary cause is emission of greenhouse gasses from the energy systems that power human civilization. The cure requires shifting energy consumption to solar, wind, tidal and other low carbon systems as well asconsuming and using less. Or we can treat the symptoms of climate change by building sea walls, rebuilding infrastructure, relocating cites, inventing new types of crops that produce food in drought and heat, and managing new disease vectors and heat-related illnesses. The cure requires a bit of self-restraint, but provides other benefits like green jobs and healthy air. Treatment of symptoms costs a lot and often doesnt work.

In the parlance of climate change, the cure is called mitigation and the treatment is called adaptation. The Paris Agreement is about mitigation. Most Americans want it, even most Trump supporters want it, but U.S. President Trump still seems willing to ignore its risks and costs.

The climate-obesity analogy goes further. We can blame our obesity on food companies and hope that scientists invent food that is sugar and fat free so that we can eat in excess without harming ourselves. Likewise, we can blame our greenhouse gas emissions on energy companies and hope that scientists will invent a cure. That is, we can risk hubris, continue business as usual, and hope technology invents a cure before the disease kills us.

The analogy goes further still. When a disease pushes you close to death, you may accept riskier treatment. You may volunteer for the experimental drug or organ transplant knowing the treatment might not work and could kill you sooner. Climate change treatment offers a similar high-risk option: geoengineering. We could shoot sulfur into the atmosphere to control sunshine or poor iron into oceans to absorb carbon. The treatments might not work and likely will harm other ecosystem services that sustain human civilization.

There is one more medical analogy of import. This one explains the divide between Republican and Democrat positions on climate change. Republicans worry that the treatment might be worse than the disease. Some treatments for climate change could grow government and increase regulation: cap and trade, for example, requires an enormous bureaucracy to set caps and monitor and redistribute monetary trades. Conservative Republican and former congressman Bob Inglis explains the conservative Republican revulsion to this treatment: it would be like going to the doctor complaining of a back pain and being told that the treatment requires removing and re-attaching your head. Suddenly your back pain becomes tolerable. Instead, he argues, if the treatment were revenue neutral and increased American economic competitiveness, like the border adjusted carbon tax he advocates, then climate change mitigation might be a pill Republicans could swallow.

We know how to cure climate change. The technologies and tools to help us succeed exist. We just need the will to swallow the pill.

Bruce Hull is a senior fellow at the Center for Leadership and Global Sustainability at Virginia Tech, based near Washington DC. He teaches, writes, and speaks about leadership practices for the cross-sector space where business, government, and civil society collaborate.

Read more from the original source:

When It Comes to Climate Change, Treat the Cause, Not the Symptoms - Triple Pundit (registration) (blog)

Ucore Enters Development MOU with Commerce Resources InvestorIntel (TSX VENTURE:CCE)(OTC:CMRZF) (Commerce) for the purpose of integrating feedstock from Commerce's Ashram Project in Quebec (the Ashram Project) with Ucore's recently announced rare earth separation facility and Strategic Metals Complex ... and more »

Original post:

Ucore Enters Development MOU with Commerce Resources - InvestorIntel

by Greg Klein | June 5, 2017

While China dominates the critical rare earths market, two companies plan to work together on potential North American supply and processing. Commerce Resources TSXV:CCE and Ucore Rare Metals TSXV:UCU have signed a memorandum of understanding to conduct metallurgical tests on material from Commerces Ashram REE deposit in northern Quebec. Characterized by relatively simple mineralogy and a favourable distribution of magnet feed elements, Ashram is currently moving towards pre-feasibility.

The MOU would integrate Ashram material into Ucores SuperLig-One molecular recognition technology facility in Utah. A joint venture of Ucore and IBC Advanced Technologies, the MRT process involves selective separation.

The tests would determine the suitability of Ashram concentrate for a Strategic Metals Complex that Ucore plans to build in Utah to process REEs and platinum group metals. Following the tests, Commerce and Ucore would consider long-term supply and offtake agreements.

Metallurgical tests at a Colorado facility have already produced an Ashram concentrate surpassing 45% rare earth oxides at approximately 75% recovery.

Ashrams high-quality and high-grade mineral concentrate looks to be a very promising candidate for processing via an MRT separation circuit, commented Ucore president/CEO Jim McKenzie. The Ashram deposit is large tonnage, good grade, hosts a well-balanced REE distribution with an enrichment in the magnet feed REEs and, perhaps most importantly, is highly accessible. In combination with the SMC, Ashram promises to be a key link in a self-contained North American REE supply chain.

The news comes as U.S. Congress considers a bill to support domestic supplies and processing for minerals vital to defence, including rare earths. A number of recent reports from the U.S. Geological Survey have highlighted that countrys dependency on possibly insecure foreign sources.

Commerce president Chris Grove added, Security of supply is vitally important and, with our simple mineralogy and successful use of standard processing, we look forward with Ucore to realizing the goal of an independent North American REE supply chain.

Another recent MOU signed by Commerce would have independent power producer TUGLIQ Energy study the potential for wind-generated electricity on the Ashram project.

Last week Commerce closed a private placement of $942,630, which followed a February financing that raised $1.72 million including $1 million from Ressources Qubec, a subsidiary of the provincial government corporation Investissement Qubec.

Read more about Commerce Resources.

Read about the Wests dependency on China for critical minerals here and here.

This article was posted by Greg Klein - Resource Clips on Monday, June 5th, 2017 at 1:40 pm.

View post:

Commerce Resources and Ucore Rare Metals to co-operate on rare earths supply chain - Resource Clips

Updated 2 hours ago

Concertgoers can arrive by land, sea and bicycle trail as Freeport hosts another summer of monthly musical performances at Riverside Drive Park.

Soul Raydio kicks it off at 7 p.m. June 9. Murphy's Music Center Big Band, an Alle-Kiski Valley institution, follows July 14, and Makin' Changes bookends the series Aug. 11.

To me, it is the most amazing experience to relax along the Allegheny River and listen to great musicians performing in our vintage gazebo, says Mary Bowlin, secretary of the organizing Freeport Renaissance Association. There is plenty of room. It is not crowded or congested. The Freeport Community Boat Dock has been placed in the river so it is ready to welcome recreational watercraft of all sizes to enjoy the entertainment. Free docking and free entertainment in Freeport ... it doesn't get any better!

Cyclists on the Butler-Freeport Trail can just make the ride across the Freeport Veterans Bridge and head to the river to enjoy the concerts.

The atmosphere is relaxing. It is a wonderful place to wind down at the end of the week, Bowlin says. The gazebo was built in 1999 to house entertainment and so we are very proud to be continuing in line with that mission.

Soul Raydio drummer Coley Ward says his New Kensington-Pittsburgh group enjoyed playing Freeport's September by the River festival last fall and is looking forward to performing by the river again this summer.

Music lovers are in for a treat, says Lou Downard, who books the bands for the annual Rockin' Roosevelt and Band Blast concerts in Arnold and New Kensington, respectively.

They're a very high energy funk/soul band, he says. They have played at several blues competitions in Memphis the past several years. ... They've played the past three Rockin' Roosevelt concerts and all three of the Band Blast Memorial Park concerts and I've booked them for the next Band Blast, Sept. 24.

Husband and wife Pete and Donna Little make their way to Freeport for the first time to perform as Makin' Changes, leading a five-piece band from northern Pennsylvania that they started 11 years ago and plays '60s rock and oldies.

The Murphy's Music Center Big Band is pleased to return to be part of the programs, says Jim Caporali, owner of the Leechburg music store.

While this band began as a fun hobby for its members, it has grown into a great opportunity to share music which has a rich history from a bygone era. It is our pleasure to perform this music in the way it was originally intended to be heard: live and in person, he says.

The 17-plus musicians and vocalists offer Count Basie, Woody Herman, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and other sounds of that era.

While our core audience tends to be people who grew up listening to this style, we see quite a few younger people in attendance, many of whom have never been exposed to this music. It makes us smile to see new generation enjoy the sounds of Sinatra, Martin and many others, says Caporali.

The current iteration of the band is 14 years old, however, the history of the big band associated with Murphy's Music goes back to the early 1950s, primarily in the form of the Johnny Murphy Orchestra.

We look forward to folks visiting our town for the very first time and then returning again and again to shop, dine or just relax along the river, Bowlin says.

Rex Rutkoski is a Tribune-Review contributing writer.

Continued here:

It's music down by the river side in Freeport this summer - Tribune-Review

There is a long list of reasons to visit Shibuyas latest addition to its cityscape from the craft cocktails served in its roomy lounge to the outdoor terrace with large white cushions and its architect-designed convenience store. Not to forget the pop-up space, four spacious event rooms, a kushiyaki (grilled skewered dishes) outlet and a wooden rooftop chapel.

With so much going on, it may be easy to forget that there is one other compelling reason to visit: checking in and going to sleep.

Trunk (Hotel), which recently opened its doors in Tokyos Shibuya district, is one of a string of new establishments in the capital that are transforming Japans traditional hospitality industry. Tokyos hotel scene has long been dominated by either salaryman-packed business hotels or high-end luxury five-star hotel chains, with little in between (love hotels aside).

Something, however, appears to be shifting. A growing number of new hotels are defying stereotypes by shunning Western-style hotel aesthetics for Japanese design and craftsmanship, offering more reasonable room rates and creating services and facilities that swap traditional hospitality concepts for the idea of a third space.

There is Wise Owl Hostels, whose two Tokyo establishments target both partygoers and families, fusing contemporary urban spaces with budget accommodation. Both hostels have high-quality memory foam mattresses in all bunks, while the Hatchobori branch even has a lively bar in its basement.

Meanwhile, Bed & Bed Tokyo in Ikebukuro offers visitors the opportunity to sleep, quite literally, in a world of books, with its friendly space of wooden capsules hidden behind bookshelves by Suppose Design.

And now, there is Trunk (Hotel).

Located just seconds from fashion-hub Cat Street in Harajuku, the hotel, which opened in May, is housed in two adjacent four-story buildings designed by Mount Fuji Architects, complete with recycled wood and gray stone facades, tiered balconies and cascading greenery. Jamo Associates designed the interiors, including the lounge an expansive and relaxing music-filled space of concrete floors and minimally abstract artworks, offering guests coffee and free Wi-Fi by day and craft cocktails after dark.

For those with sleep on the agenda, there are 15 guest rooms, each resembling that of a stylish urban apartment rather than a hotel, fitted with custom-crafted wooden furniture by Truck in Osaka, monochrome tiled bathrooms and a number of expansive wooden terraces filled with insect-repelling rosemary herbs.

Another key attraction are its four spacious and contemporary events spaces, which are likely to become fashion-industry favorites as well as a popular choice for wedding receptions (the reason for a clean-lined wooden chapel on the roof terrace).

For foodies, the flagship restaurant Trunk (Kitchen) serves a contemporary menu designed by Yuji Tani (of House restaurant in Nishi Azabu), with enticing dishes such as Shibuya Burrata cheese and pomegranates. Meawhile, Trunk (Kushi), a modern take on traditional grilled meat dishes, is housed in a cosy enclave near the hotels entrance.

The most relaxed spot, however, is the main terrace. The space, with a Zelkova tree at its center, is open to guests and locals alike and is home to a white Torafu Architects-designed convenience store filled with Tokyo-made food, drink and design products, as well as the hotels own branded Trunk range, including organic Japanese body products and monochrome T-shirts.

The Made-in-Japan theme is strong throughout from the complimentary guest-room tins of Trunk candy made by historical Tokyo sweets company Sakuma to the surprisingly tasty Tokyo wine served in Trunk (Kushi) and made by Fujimaru Winery based in the Kiyosumi-Shirakawa district.

The establishments environmental imprint is another key concern, as reflected in countless details such as the recycled acrylic cloakroom keys, the dead-stock denim staff aprons and a fleet of renovated abandoned Tokyo bicycles.

For Hisao Koga, the general manager, key to Trunk (Hotel)s concept is the fact that it does not fit easily into Tokyos existing hotel stereotypes and it aims to mark the beginning of a new era for the citys hospitality scene.

Trunk (Hotel) is neither luxury hotel nor business hotel, he explains. It is not just a design hotel or boutique hotel. Its an unprecedented new concept-hotel, focusing on the ability for individuals to be able to realistically and easily make substantial social contributions through their daily lives.

He adds: Just like fashion or food, being able to choose a hotel according to your needs and preferences is becoming a must these days. Our goal is to become a destination hotel where people come because we are here.

Theres no doubting that any new hotel opening is a timely addition for Tokyo, which is currently suffering a widespread accommodation shortage in the run-up to the 2020 Olympic Games. The 2020 countdown has, needless to say, accelerated a flurry of developments the most recent announcement being a luxury hotel, planned by Mori Trust and designed by Kengo Kuma, in the Ginza district.

Describing how the Olympics is fueling a significant shift in the citys hotel world, Koga adds: There will be more luxury and business hotels opening in the next couple years, and that will allow customers to choose according to their needs and preferences.

As far as I am aware, there are quite a few interesting hostels, but not so many concept-driven boutique hotels planning to open before the Olympics although there surely is a demand for that.

Trunk (Hotel) has rooms from 27,000 (single) to 570,000 for the top suite (sleeping 14). For more information, visit trunk-hotel.com.

Go here to read the rest:

Trunk lifts the lid on Tokyo's evolving hospitality industry - The Japan Times

Eating food with high levels of pesticides has an adverse effect on the brain, according to a review of existing scientific evidence commissioned by the European Parliament.

The MEPs wanted to know whether organic food was healthier than conventionally grown crops and asked experts to look at the relevant research.

A report based on the reviewsaid a California study had found that children whose mothers had traces of organophosphate metabolites the basis for many pesticides duringpregnancy were more likely to haveadverse mental development at two years of age, attention problems at three-and-a-half and five years, and poorer intellectual development at seven years".

Another study calculated that an estimated 13 million IQ points a year are lost as a result of pesticides, which represents a loss of approximately 125bn (109bn) across the European Union.

The report suggested this figure was likely to be an under-estimation, as it failedto take into account the possible impact of pesticides ondiseases like Parkinsons, diabetes and some types of cancer.

The experts also raisedconcerns about pesticide regulation. While they undergo a comprehensive risk assessment before market release important gaps remain," they said.

"At least 100 different pesticides [are] known to cause adverse neurological effects in adults and all of these substances must therefore be suspected of being capable of damaging developing brains as well," they added.

Organic food, however, contains low pesticide levels and the potential risks to human health are largely avoided.

Professor Ewa Rembiakowska, of Warsaw University, said: There are indications that organic crops have a lower cadmium content than conventional crops due to differences in fertiliser use and soil organic matter, an issue that is highly relevant to human health.

"Organic milk has a higher content of beneficial omega-3 fatty acids compared to conventional milk, although we cannot currently derive any specific health benefit from this.

And Professor Johannes Kahl said: "We find that people who prefer organic food also have overall healthier dietary preferences, including more vegetables, fruits, and wholegrain products and less meat.

"These patterns are also favourable from the perspective of environmental sustainability."

The report concluded that there was a link between organic food consumption and a decreased risk of allergic diseases, as well as potential benefits for overweight or obesity people.

View post:

Pesticides can cause brain damage and organic food is the future, EU report says - The Independent

Meditation, relaxation and psychological counselling are becoming important tools in the care of people with cancer, according to multiple clinical trials released at the worlds largest conference on cancer.

The research unveiled at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) conference is part of a new push by oncologists to focus on not just killing tumors, but boosting the morale and mental health of people who are reeling from the shock of being diagnosed with cancer.

For many women who survive a bout with cancer, the fear that it will return can be debilitating, and may interfere with work and family relationships. About 50% of all cancer survivors and 70% of young breast cancer survivors report moderate to high fear of recurrence, according to one study led by Jane Beith, a medical oncologist at the University of Sydney in Australia.

She and colleagues developed an intervention called Conquer Fear, in which trained therapists met 222 patients for five one-hour to 90-minute-long sessions over 10 weeks. They talked about accepting uncertainty and teaching strategies to control worrying, as well as how to focus on life goals. Stretching and meditation were also part of the treatment.

Stretching and meditation were also part of the treatment. (Shutterstock)

The reduction in fear of recurrence in the psychological intervention group was large enough to improve survivors psychological and emotional wellbeing, said Beith.

Using a 42-item questionnaire called Fear of Cancer Recurrence Inventory (FCRI), researchers found that the fear of cancer was reduced significantly in those who went through therapy by 18 points on average in the intervention group compared to 7.6 points in a control group that did not receive the same attention.

Talk therapy

Another study, carried out in Canada, showed that brief sessions of psychotherapy could also benefit people with advanced cancer. A randomised clinical trial enrolled 305 patients late-stage cancer to study an intervention, called Managing Cancer And Living Meaningfully (CALM).

After three months, 52% of patients who received CALM had a clinically important reduction in depressive symptoms, compared to 33% of patients who received usual care, researchers reported. After a few months, patients who had undergone the therapy were more prepared for the end of life.

This brief talking therapy helps patients facing advanced cancer, and their loved ones, sustain what is meaningful in their life despite its limitations and face the future, said lead study author Gary Rodin, head of the department of supportive care at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, Canada.

It provides time and space for reflection on the threats and challenges associated with advanced cancer.

Using a 42-item questionnaire called Fear of Cancer Recurrence Inventory (FCRI), researchers found that the fear of cancer was reduced significantly in those who went through therapy . (Shutterstock)

Online therapy

A third study examined the possibility of using the internet to deliver psychological help to cancer patients who may not be able to get it in person.

Called the STREAM intervention, the eight-week programme offered web-based stress management, in a programme developed by oncologists and psychologists.

Weekly topics included bodily reaction to stress, cognitive stress reduction, feelings, and social interactions.

A total of 129 cancer patients mostly women with breast cancer were randomised to either receive written and audio information and then complete exercises and questionnaires, or join a control group that did not go through the programme.

Those who completed STREAM reported a greater improvement in quality of life than patients in the control group, and less distress than before. However, there were no significant differences in anxiety or depression between the two groups.

I think online psychological support will be much more important in the years to come, as the digital generation reaches the age when they are at higher risk of cancer, said lead study author Viviane Hess, a medical oncologist at the University Hospital of Basel in Basel, Switzerland.

For them, it will be natural to use such online tools and communicate without face-to-face interaction, and so now is the time to standardise and validate the tools.

Follow @htlifeandstyle for more.

More:

Meditation, talk therapy effective in reducing fear, anxiety in cancer patients - Hindustan Times