Categories: Benefits of Meditation, Health and Wellness, News
It’s Tuesday and you’ve just finished up a big meeting with one of your toughest clients. It’s 2:30 in the afternoon and you’ve still got piles of paperwork to sift through before you can even think about calling it a day. Before you begin your dreaded paperwork duties, you make a quick run up to […]
Categories: Benefits of Meditation, Health and Wellness, News
To be mindful means to be aware of our thoughts, feelings, emotions, bodily sensations, and even our surrounding environments. Mindfulness plays an essential role in the practice of meditation. It involves not only the acknowledgment of, but also the acceptance of, our feelings without passing judgment. Perhaps the best way to describe this is, to […]
Categories: Benefits of Meditation
I spend a lot of time talking about the many ways meditation can benefit you, but one I forget to mention enough is how meditation can help your career. Everyone is trying to climb the ladder towards success, and most people with a lot of ambition are going about it the usual way: they show […]
Categories: Benefits of Meditation
One of the things you’ll constantly hear me say on this blog is that you don’t need to meditate for hours at a time, day after day, to get the benefits of meditation. Is that really true, though? Can just a small amount of meditation produce lasting benefits. One comparison I like to frequently use […]
Categories: Benefits of Meditation
Is meditation the fountain of youth people have been searching for throughout all of history? One man happens to think that it is, and he has the research to back it. Vanity has always been big business, and that hasn’t changed a bit in recent years. Every year, millions of Americans spend their hard earned […]
Categories: Benefits of Meditation, Healthcare and Meditation, Meditation for Children
“Providing mindfulness treatment for parents and children simultaneously may target those parents high on ADHD, who are shown to be at risk of nonresponse to behavioral parent training.” — Saskia Oord Sometimes the parents of children with attention deficit hyperactive disorder — ADHD — don’t know how to manage their child. This can often lead to […]
Categories: Benefits of Meditation, Exercising Your Mind, Health and Wellness
It’s understandable why some people think meditation is a waste of time. When you think of sitting quietly in the dark, thinking about nothing, it doesn’t exactly sound productive. Of course, that’s a generalized stereotype of what meditation is. Sure, you can sit in the dark and think about nothing if that’s the way you […]
Categories: Benefits of Meditation, News
I think it’s fairly safe to say that most people would liken 20 minutes of meditation to a night out at a comedy club, but you might be surprised to learn these two activities have a lot in common. In fact, as far as your brains concerned, they might as well be the same thing. […]
Categories: Benefits of Meditation
Today, I have some very exciting news. It turns out meditation is spreading across the west like wild fire. As you might imagine, every so often I like to search the Internet for the latest news and research on the subject of meditation. Well, while doing my search today, the first two headlines I saw […]
Categories: Benefits of Meditation
The ability to resist an urge is one of the most important and beneficial abilities a person can have. Studies have shows that people who can resist urges are better at long term planning, setting and meetings goals, and staying productive throughout the day. It makes sense when you really think about it — after […]
