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 […]
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RSS feed for this sectionStrategies for Managing Anger and Depression Through Meditation
Categories: Health and Wellness, Healthcare and Meditation, News
Let’s face it: Some of us have at least some trouble controlling our anger, depression, or other forms of emotional distress during frustrating or saddening times. Emotions themselves are unavoidable, so instead of doing everything we can to avoid them, we should be facing them head on. After all, how we cope with and manage […]
Exploring the Effects of Meditation In Regards to Ultimate Fitness, Neuroplasticity, Neuromodulation & Stronger Memory Formation
Categories: Health and Wellness, News, Science
Many people whom meditate do it for an array of different, yet equally important, reasons. Whether it be physical fitness, mental health, cognitive ability, anger/emotion management, or purely surface-related reasons—meditation can play an integral role in the bettering of yourself, both mentally and physically. In this article, we’re going to focus intently on how to, […]
Applying the Warrior Method of Meditation in Business
Categories: Exercising Your Mind, Health and Wellness, News
When you hear the word “meditation”, what type of person do you typically envision? Do you see a pony-tailed hippie sitting with their legs crossed and fingers in the “OKAY” formation? Or maybe you picture a Buddhist monk contemplating upon the highest point of a mountain? You may even think of startup-rich yuppies meditating on […]
Building Muscle and Increasing Endurance Through Meditation
Categories: Health and Wellness, News, Sports Meditation
Meditation is something that many people know about, but don’t fully understand. While a vast majority of people understands that meditation is a means of reaching spiritual tranquility and heightening mental awareness, what most people don’t realize is that, meditation can also be a great way to build muscle and increase physical endurance. So much […]
How Mindfulness Meditation Can Help Treat Traumatic Brain Injuries (for Veterans)
Categories: Health and Wellness, Meditation and Military, News
It goes without saying that, veterans are a different breed of people. They’ve withstood some of the worst hardships an individual can possibly face. They’ve seen more of the world than most of us ever will; and they’ve experienced some of life’s greatest treasures – but also, some of the worst. Death, destruction and injury […]
Machismo: A Masculine Guide to Meditation
Categories: Health and Wellness, News
Since the ancient times, meditation has proven to be a great way for people to ponder deeply, focus intently, clear their minds, and induce relaxation. Oftentimes, meditation is practiced by an individual in an effort to expand spiritually, physically, consciously, and emotionally. It is impartial to gender and age, and may be one of the […]
How To Integrate Muscle Strength and Exercise Through the Practice of Mindfulness Meditation
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 […]
Think Meditation is a Waste of Time? Here Are 5 Reasons It’s Not
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 […]
New Research Suggests Mindfulness Can Alter Gene Expression
Categories: Health and Wellness, Healthcare and Meditation
Mounting scientific evidence has shown that meditation can affect a person’s mood by making them more relaxed and at ease; it can create real changes in the body and the mind; and it might even help some people get over their addictions. So it’s not surprising that for some time many researchers have been wondering […]