About four days into my first meditation retreat, I started crying. Not little droplets of tears, but great, big, uncontrolled sobs – it felt like I was throwing up wave after wave of stale sadness. I'd expected the long days of sitting to be boring,
Huffington Post (blog) - May 2, 2011
Attending a silent meditation retreat can produce deep, lasting rewards. But for short-term pleasure, nothing beats that magical moment when you perceive that, having slogged through several difficult days doing nothing and saying even less, ...
Journalism.co.uk (press release) - May 3, 2011
Meditation is often considered as a practice for relaxing and only for the mind, however, people fail to realise that meditation practice can actually act as a effective tool for weight loss. The most important reason why people fail to lose weight is ...
We've seen before that meditation can guard against information overload. Now new research shows howmeditation works on our brains to help us focus more and possibly relieve chronic pain. ...
Huffington Post (blog) - 12 hours ago
In this blog we'll look at a very popular complementary treatment: meditation. Let's begin by acknowledging that millions of people have used meditation for general health and mental health benefits for centuries. When I was a graduate student in ...
My Fox Boston - May 9, 2011
A new study from MIT and Harvard neuroscientists is helping to shed some light on this mindset with information that reveals how the practice of meditation helps tune out distractions and relieve pain, information that could be extremely helpful for ...
New research shows that daily meditation improves memory and diminishes stress. John Hearne looks at the evidence By John Hearne Think meditation and you probably think hippies with long hair and sandals, sitting cross-legged somewhere chanting mantras
In the time it takes you to read this column, you can master the basics of meditation -- and make your brain bigger, too. Yep, we started our daily practices back when we YOU Docs thought meditation would just ease stress. Then we found that it reduced ......
Huffington Post (blog) - May 4, 2011
By learning to meditate. Right. As if you could go sit in a cave like a yogi. Guess what? You don't have to leave the world to meditate. A few minutes in your bedroom at the start of the day is all you need. Despite my totally crazy busy schedule, ...
So I did the smartest thing I ever did: I started meditating. I've been doing Vipassana meditation for about three years now. In Vipassana, we focus on the breath. When we realize our minds have wandered, we go back to the breath. ......
