For the past year I’ve been experimenting with meditating live online with people around the world. Their chosen spot is not a temple or a church hall or a sitting room, but cyberspace. Meditation is fast…
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Ever been unable to sleep because you can’t switch off that stream of thoughts that seems to flow incessantly, mercilessly through your head? When your mental noise distracts you from the task at hand…
The brain and the mind are two sides of the same coin. We have always wanted to understand how our minds work but, until recently, lacked the tools to investigate the brain. The jelly-like tissue that…
A new study shows that training in meditation before multitasking could make an information-crazed workday less stressful…
Practicing a particular form of meditation is associated with improved health outcomes and greater overall wellbeing, according…
Meditation has traditionally been associated with Eastern mysticism but science is beginning to show that cultivating a “heightened” state of consciousness can have a major impact on our brain, the way…
People who are experienced with meditation can “switch off” the parts of their brain that are associated with day dreaming…
Workers who meditate are much less stressed and depressed, according to research done by the University of Sydney. Employees…
Drugs to relieve pain for people with chronic diseases are expensive and can have harmful side effects. But there are alternatives that promise benefits exceeding pain relief. Mindfulness meditation…
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