“Just close your eyes and let your mind go,” they all say. “It’s amazing,” they all say. “It changed my life,” they all say. There’s a truckload of research suggesting that meditation, and related ...

When you can’t go outside, go inside. In these challenging times, breathing and meditation can help us settle our minds and provide physical and emotional strength. The SKY Club at CU Boulder is ...

Making New Year’s resolutions for 2022 has become less a matter of aspiration than of urgency. With our collective blood pressure on the rise and a host of other pandemic-induced stresses ticking up, ...

Learning how to properly practice breathing techniques or how to ground yourself is easier said than done. It can be tough to focus your mind, especially when trying to do it alone. But luckily, you ...

Growing up in India in a non-religious household, I assumed that everyone did yoga and meditation every morning. My dad would do his yoga and prānāyāma (yogic breath work) followed by a few minutes of ...

Meditation is a form of contemplative practice that reduces pain by activating brain regions associated with the self-control of pain.(Adobe Stock) Have you ever woken up feeling stressed about the ...

When I told my coworkers that I was spending the month of March taking the time to do a daily meditation, they all laughed, saying, “I cannot imagine you doing meditation.” And I didn’t blame them—I ...

"It makes us feel more confident in what mindfulness meditation might really be capable of for performance and daily functioning right there in the moment." While meditation and mindfulness have ...

A recently pubished 18-year analysis of the mind of a Buddhist monk by the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found daily, intensive meditation slowed the monk’s brain ...

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Even a quick practice of meditation before sleeping affects heart-rate variability and calms the brain’s emotional center.