by Jack Walker In nearly every tradition of meditation, periods of retreat are a key component of training. Retreat lets you invest the bandwidth of your attention into meditation practice, free from the distractions of… Read More »Planning Your Own Meditation Home Retreat
by Jo Marchant for New Scientist Meditation and tai chi don’t just calm the mind – they seem to affect our DNA too. There’s evidence that such “mind-body practices” dampen the activity of genes associated… Read More »Mindfulness And Meditation Dampen Down Inflammation Genes
Jennifer Howd had been building a mindfulness practice for a few years before taking on the challenge of her first nine-day silent meditation retreat. In this debut memoir, SIT, WALK, DON’T TALK: How… Read More »Sit, Walk, Don’t Talk
from Brown University Though it has gained popularity in the West as medically and psychologically beneficial, meditation can produce a much wider variety of outcomes, not all of them calm and relaxing, according to a… Read More »Study Documents Range Of Challenging Meditation Experiences
In a new study of a Brown University scholarly course on mindfulness that also included meditation labs, researchers found that the practice on average significantly helped women overcome “negative affect” — a downcast mood —… Read More »Mindfulness Class Helped Women, But Not Men, Overcome ‘Negative Affect’
From Science Daily Just 10 minutes of daily mindful mediation can help prevent your mind from wandering and is particularly effective if you tend to have repetitive, anxious thoughts, according to a study from the… Read More »Just 10 Minutes of Meditation Helps Anxious People Have Better Focus
By Sara G. Miller for Live Science A type of “mindfulness” therapy that helps people become more aware of their emotions may help prevent a relapse of depression, a new meta-analysis finds. People in the study… Read More »‘Mindfulness’ May Keep Depression from Coming Back
By Anna Nowogrodzki for Scientific American There’s a little too much wishful thinking about mindfulness, and it is skewing how researchers report their studies of the technique. Researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, analyzed… Read More »Power of Positive Thinking Skews Mindfulness Studies
By James Kingsland for The Guardian It may seem unlikely, but a small and growing body of evidence suggests that regular meditation can indeed slow aging, at least at a cellular level. Do people who… Read More »Could Meditation Really Help Slow The Aging Process?
By Gretchen Reynolds for The NY Times Blog The benefits of mindfulness meditation, increasingly popular in recent years, are supposed to be many: reduced stress and risk for various diseases, improved well-being, a rewired brain.… Read More »How Meditation Changes the Brain and Body
By Andrew M. Seaman for Reuters Health Middle-school students in urban areas may benefit from in-school mindfulness programs, a new study suggests. Students taking a mindfulness-based stress reduction program during the school day ended up… Read More »School-based Mindfulness May Reduce Stress, Trauma
From Science Daily Scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have found new evidence that mindfulness meditation reduces pain more effectively than placebo. This is significant because placebo-controlled trials are the recognized standard for demonstrating… Read More »Mindfulness Meditation Trumps Placebo In Pain Reduction
By Max Plenke for .Mic Stressed out? The sexier side of science has good and bad news for you. The bad news: Your stress is keeping you from having the best sex you can. The… Read More »Meditation Helps You Have Better Sex — Here’s the Science Behind Why