Meditation is difficult, at least to begin with. On my first attempt, instead of concentrating on my breathing and letting go of anything that came to mind, as instructed by my cheery Tibetan teacher, ...

The New York Times, not content with just being the newspaper of record, wants to moonlight as your meditation teacher. “With everything we’re doing now, the key principle to present the story or ...

You may have heard of meditation in a yoga session, a therapy appointment, in pop culture or in various wellness circles. Meditation is a broad term that includes many types of practice: There's ...

Meditation is the practice of deeply focusing your mind. It can promote relaxation, mindfulness, and a better sense of inner peace. There are many ways to meditate. One technique is Vipassana ...

As explained by MSU psychology doctoral candidate and study co-author Yanli Lin, "FA meditation is conceptualized as the voluntary direction of sustained attentional awareness to a target object (e.g.

Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. If you live in the Bay Area, as I do, it’s almost compulsory to believe in the meditative arts.

In my work as a cardiovascular surgeon, I use the most sophisticated tools of modern medicine to separate patients from their diseased hearts and replace these organs with healthy ones. While my ...

Mantras are used in meditation practice to help ground you to the current moment and release your mind from invading thoughts. Mantra meditation is meant to relax and center you by releasing judgments ...