The findings come from the Shamatha Project, a comprehensive long-term, control-group study of the effects of meditation training on mind and body. Focusing on the present rather than letting the mind ...

Mindfulness meditation combines the concepts of mindfulness and meditation. When you are mindful, you remain present in the moment. You are aware of what’s going on around you while staying connected ...

Mindfulness is an awareness of one’s state of mind, physical self and their surroundings. "Mindfulness can help people avoid destructive or automatic habits and responses by learning to observe their ...

Sleep plays a massive role in maintaining your overall health. Millions of people in America have a hard time getting sound sleep. Research has found that using mindfulness techniques helps to solve ...

Meditation practices that use mindfulness have been around for millennia Only recently have neuroscientists been able see exactly how the brain changes after mindfulness programs There are still ...

Lauren Silva, a freelance writer in New York City, believes in feeling good in your body and making that experience accessible to everyone across generations. The proof is in her ever-piling browser ...

During the past two decades, more and more scientists have studied mindfulness—a Buddhist-inspired collection of practices aimed at helping us to cultivate moment-to-moment awareness of ourselves and ...

Mindfulness meditation can help us lead happier, healthier lives . . . at least according to science. Yet many of us still balk at the idea of practicing it ourselves. Perhaps we fear that meditation ...

It’s hard to put your finger on the point when the Western stereotype of Buddhist meditation flipped. It was sometime between the 1950s, when Zen Buddhism seeped into the beat generation, and the ...

Mindfulness meditation has been practiced for millennia – and today is a billion-dollar business. But how much does the practice really change our health? In late 1971, US Navy veteran Stephen Islas ...

It is proposed that the mechanism through which mindfulness meditation exerts its effects is a process of enhanced self-regulation, including attention control, emotion regulation and self-awareness.