Just ten minutes of mindfulness meditation could be used as an alternative to painkillers, according to new research.
In what way is the mind connected to the body, and vice versa?
A thought is a thought. It does not reflect reality. New research shows that learning how to ruminate less on thoughts and feelings has a positive effect for individuals with depression.
A team of doctors has documented a case in which a terminal patient removed from life support continued to experience brain wave activity for approximately 10 minutes after they had been pronounced clinically dead. The team acknowledge that they have no explanation for what they observed.
The Dalai Lama often recommends a particular form of Buddhist meditation called 'analytic meditation'. In this type of meditation, he said, one needs meditate on the information accumulated by the mind from various sources and use reasoning to decode and decrypt it.
This study shows that female inmates who meditate twice a day have less trauma symptoms and are less likely to recidivate.
Older people who followed a Mediterranean diet retained more brain volume over a three-year period than those who did not follow the diet as closely, new research shows.
People were able to calm activity in the amygdala after seeing visual cues that responded to their mental processes.
Participants in a six-day Ayurvedic-based well-being program that featured a vegetarian diet, meditation, yoga and massages experienced measurable decreases in a set of blood-based metabolites.
Neuroscientists have identified the neural networks that connect the cerebral cortex to the adrenal medulla, which is responsible for the body's rapid response in stressful situations. These findings provide evidence for the neural basis of a mind-body connection.
Scientists from Oxford University and UCL have identified part of our brain that helps us learn to be good to other people. The subgenual anterior cingulate part of the brain seems to be especially tuned to benefiting other people.
A novel PET radiotracer is able for the first time to reveal epigenetic activity - the process that determines whether or not genes are expressed -within the human brain.
Wellbeing workers are becoming more common as schools integrate mental health into learning. Principals say meditation is more important than ever as children's minds become crowded by technology.
Every Tuesday, the employees of Nootrobox fast for 36 hours. Co-founder and CEO Geoffrey Woo recently boasted to Quartz that Tuesdays are now “one of our most productive days of the week.”
Simple Habit's 5 minute personalized meditations are designed a Harvard psychologist and meditation experts. Founder Yunha Kim started meditating a few minutes a day at her previous startup, Locket, and decided to build Simple Habit to help people reduce stress and live happier.
