Meditation

After months and months of nonstop bad news, we’re all feeling run-down and looking for ways to destress and center ourselves. Have you considered meditation? Sound baths can help you stay focused during meditation—and you can even do them at home. Here’s how.Start by embracing basic meditation“Meditation is simply a practice to bring you within…

'I know how valuable relaxation is': Regé-Jean Page lulls fans asleep after launching his own soothing sleep story on a guided meditation appBy Natasha Hooper For Mailonline Published: 04:40 EDT, 24 August 2021 | Updated: 05:06 EDT, 24 August 2021 <!-- <!-- <!-- <!-- -- <!--…

This article, written by Julia Kam, University of Calgary; Caitlin Mills, University of New Hampshire; Chelsie Miko Hart, University of Calgary; Jessica Andrews-Hanna, University of Arizona, and Lianne Tomfohr-Madsen, University of Calgary, originally appeared on The Conversation and has been republished here with permission: The…

Key Takeaways Meditation is linked to such mental and physical benefits as lessening symptoms of anxiety, depression and insomnia and lowering blood pressure. A new study found that the practice can also improve brain function. After two months of consistent meditation, participants were able to able to reach a focused state more quickly.…

Screenshot: Khamosh PathakInsight Timer is a community-based mindfulness meditation app and website. In an app like Headspace, you essentially have access to one or two meditation teachers. On Insight Timer, there are thousands of meditation teachers to choose from. You can even enroll in communities that practice mindfulness and meditation…

A study that examined the effects of meditation on the brain has confirmed what many who practice it have long suspected Buddhist monks have been certain of it for centuries, while late adopters in the…

I’m shaking my pelvis with brio, when a goldendoodle ambles up. Don’t you poo, I think. Then again, doing what comes naturally is the point of today. My friend Beth has invited me to try 5Rhythms: a silent disco movement meditation class on Clapham Common. I didn’t understand any of those words, but said yes­, because this column has turned my…

If you are someone who finds themselves nodding off while trying to meditate and feels like meditation is an effort and not for you, you may be at the right place. That is because Swami Purnachaitanya, a yogi and senior meditation teacher with The Art of Living, and author of Looking Inward: Meditation To Survive In A Changing World, has some…

To see whether this would influence the effects of mindfulness in the West, Poulin invited 366 college students into the lab and first gave them a questionnaire measuring their independence or interdependence.  Half were then asked to perform a meditation focused on the sensation of breathing. The control group were given a “sham” meditation…

When Japanese chef Yoshihiro Murata travels, he brings water with him from Japan. He says this is the only way to make truly authentic dashi, the flavorful broth essential to Japanese cuisine. There’s science…