People who don’t meditate often think of meditation as just a way to relax and clear your mind. In fact, a new international ...

As people of all ages complain about the growing stresses of everyday life, a new study suggests meditation might help. Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have discovered that ...

Contrary to popular belief, meditation isn’t “thinking about nothing.” In fact, a new international study on Buddhist monks shows that meditation is a state of heightened cerebral activity in which ...

Daily meditation is no longer framed only as a path to calm, it is increasingly described in laboratories as a workout that reshapes the brain’s wiring. Imaging studies suggest that regular practice ...

The benefits of meditation—including enhanced cognition and focus, improved mindset and mood, and decreased anxiety and stress—have been observed for millennia. Many long-term practitioners report an ...

Meditation isn’t thinking about nothing. New research reinforces that it’s a mind-altering, dynamic state that promotes focus, learning, and well-being.

Meditation might help a person's gut health -- but it takes a lot of meditation over a long time. Tibetan Buddhist monks appear to have gut microbes that differ substantially from others living near ...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have found that an intensive retreat combining multiple mind-body techniques, including meditation and healing practices, produced rapid and ...

After 35 years of group work—learning hundreds of interventions, dozens of theories and facilitating thousands of patients—I may have stumbled on the most powerful intervention I’ve seen in group: a ...