Let’s face it — we all want to lounge in the sun all day on a beach in Hawaii. But we just can’t, we have to go to work and go head to head with stressors that follow the daily grind coming from corporate America. A survey done by the American Psychological Association found that

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The push-up is an incredible tool to help you get in great physical shape; that’s why it’s used in almost every gym in America. With all the scientific evidence pointing to mindfulness meditation, the practice is literally becoming America’s next push-up for the brain. Here are 10 reasons why you should do the practice. 1.

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  Meditation is usually associated with relaxation and stress release, but those outcomes are more accurately by-products of the practice. The true purpose of meditation is to quiet the mind. When that happens, all kinds of personal benefits ensue, including improved health and resiliancy, greater awareness, and the spiritual awakening that comes from tapping into

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The news came out of the blue on (appropriately) Sunday night, posted on Twitter at 7pm GMT: “Trying to learn transcendental meditation. Everyone recommends, not that easy to get started, but said to improve everything!” I love that “not that easy to get started”, as if meditation were a tricky technical exercise or skill, like

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Mindfulness can induce changes not just in the function of the brain, but in the brain’s structure itself, neuroscientists are finding. NEW YORK — Throughout life, even shortly before death, the brain can remodel itself, responding to a person’s experiences. This phenomenon, known as neuroplasticity, offers a powerful tool to improve well-being, experts say. “We

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Med­i­ta­tion is asso­ci­ated with a slew of health ben­e­fits including improved mental health, better func­tional cog­ni­tion, and even increased gray matter in the brain. His­tor­i­cally, though, one of the main pur­poses of med­i­ta­tion has been to increase the practitioner’s com­pas­sion toward all sen­tient beings, according to psy­chology pro­fessor David DeSteno. Nonethe­less, the social impli­ca­tions of

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It sounds so obvious, I know. In fact, you’d think it would go without saying. But training the mind, meditating, being mindful, or whatever else we choose to call it only works if we actively engage with it. More than that, it only works if we practice it regularly, preferably on a daily basis with

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A violent prisoner was sent on a meditation course so he could get a good night’s sleep, a court was told. Restless Paul Richards, 45, was awaiting trial for beating up his terrified girlfriend when he went to the classes to help him relax at HMP Elmley. Shocked judge Heather Norton, who was handed a

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If you are reading this then you probably recognize some value in meditation, in slowing down, and reducing stress. At the same time you probably struggle with fitting meditation into your daily routine. The good news is that establishing a daily meditation practice is easier than you may have thought. In order to make this

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We’ve talked about the benefits of meditation and showed you how to get started. The process is really simple, but perhaps deceptively so. Meditation is mental training that isn’t necessarily easy or even pleasant. In a great post on Reddit, a user named wouldbebuddhist clearly describes the meditative process and why it’s not easy when

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