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Article / Updated 12-29-2021
Meditation can help you survive the 21st century. Meditation offers a time-honored antidote to fragmentation, alienation, isolation, and stress — even stress-related illnesses and depression. Although it won’t solve the external problems of your life, it does help you develop inner resilience, balance, and strength to roll with the punches and come up with creative solutions.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 08-31-2021
Meditation is an age-old practice that can help relieve a host of ills brought on by the fast pace of modern life. All you need to meditate is a quiet place to sit, the ability to direct your attention, and a simple meditation technique. As long as you give it a well-intentioned try, you can't go wrong.How to prepare for meditationMeditation is simple to do and doesn’t require any special equipment.
Article / Updated 06-25-2021
Just as with any other activity that brings value to your life, you can maximize your meditation experience by following a few simple guidelines. Plan for meditation time: Do it consistently — day after day. Like running, playing tennis, or lifting weights, meditation requires regular practice if you want to build the appropriate muscles and skills.
Article / Updated 06-24-2021
When most folks first consider taking up the practice of meditation, they usually have a few questions they want to have answered — and when they get started, they come up with a few more. Here are the answers to ten common questions to get you started on your journey. Will meditation make me too relaxed or spaced out to succeed at work or school?
Article / Updated 06-16-2021
You might find mindfulness meditation is a great way to start your workday. By the time you arrive at work in the morning, you may already be feeling stressed out. After a hectic hour or two preparing the kids for school or haggling with your partner or dealing with some emergency at home, followed by a commute through rush-hour traffic, you may have gotten your workday off to a harrowing start.
Article / Updated 08-29-2016
Now that meditation has become so popular in the West, it has begun to infiltrate the culture in ways that were unimaginable a decade or two ago. From corporate boardrooms to elementary school classrooms, meditation is transforming the way people do business, educate children, conceptualize and deliver healthcare, and treat common psychological problems like anxiety and depression.
Article / Updated 08-29-2016
During the ’70s and ’80s, Transcendental Meditation (TM) and relaxation-response research dominated the scientific study of meditation, and the results revealed meditation’s exceptional benefits on a wide range of health measures, from blood pressure and cholesterol levels to longevity and frequency of doctor’s visits.
Article / Updated 08-29-2016
Armed with the latest information on how the brain works, researchers have been studying the correlations between meditation, the activation of different parts of the brain, and changes in behavior, cognition, and emotion. The results are far from conclusive — they’re more like tantalizing glimpses of a vast new terrain of exploration — but they do point to meditation’s enormous potential for furthering human psychological and neurological development by activating, integrating, and coordinating various brain regions.
Article / Updated 08-29-2016
After you determine what motivates you to meditate, you may benefit from a few guidelines for developing a mindset and a lifestyle that support your practice. In other words, meditators over the centuries have discovered that how you act, what you think about, and which qualities you cultivate can have an immediate impact on the depth and stability of your meditation.
Article / Updated 08-29-2016
Meditation requires discipline. If you’re like most folks, the word discipline may be a bit of a turnoff. Perhaps it reminds you of some bossy teacher who made you stay after school or childhood punishments that were intended to “set you straight.” But the discipline discussed here is quite different.The discipline discussed here is the kind of self-discipline that prompts top athletes like LeBron James and Novak Djokovic to get up every morning and run several miles and then practice their shot or their stroke over and over, long after they’ve gotten it right.
