By Alex Tzelnic — 2019
Athletes and teams looking for an extra edge are turning to mindfulness and mental-skills training to improve performance and well-being.
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A growing body of research now links the Eastern practice to improved conditions for serious ailments, from diabetes to heart disease to cancer.
One of the best — and most easily available — ways we can become healthier and happier is through mindfulness and meditation.
New research suggests mindfulness training can help men learn to control their anger and to be less violent towards their partner. Researchers believe the last few months have been particularly difficult for people living in a violent relationship.
Meditation is the habitual process of training your mind to focus and redirect your thoughts. The popularity of meditation is increasing as more people discover its many health benefits.
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With so many demands on our time and minds, it takes conscious effort to take a moment and allow ourselves the time we need to explore who we truly are. Even when we do make time, many people are stuck on how to actually do this.
Meditation offers time for relaxation and heightened awareness in a stressful world where our senses are often dulled. Research suggests that meditation has the potential for more than just temporary stress relief.
In this teaching from 2004, Joseph Goldstein explains how three principles of meditation can be applied to the world’s conflicts.
Science proves meditating restructures your brain and trains it to concentrate, feel greater compassion, cope with stress, and more.
Jon Kabat-Zinn talks about mindfulness meditation and his morning ritual.
Insight teacher James Baraz teaches how to train mindfulness with sitting meditation from the Vipassana tradition.