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 […]
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: Healthcare and Meditation
Thanks to lots of research that has been done over the past few decades, it’s now a widely known fact that meditation can reduce stress and anxiety. For this reason, it’s safe to assume that meditation is probably good for regulating emotions. That being said, though, there is scientific evidence to suggest that meditation has […]
Categories: Benefits of Meditation, Health and Wellness
Scientists used to believe that genes are a fixed thing. In other words, the genes you are born with are what determine who you are, and nothing can ever change that; they remain static, and cannot be altered. However, though the study of epigenetics, scientists began to realize that genes can be expressed in different […]
Categories: Benefits of Meditation, Blog, Healthcare and Meditation, Meditation and Emotions
New research shows that meditation can actually reduce your feelings of loneliness while simultaneously boosting your immune system. The study was conducted at the University of California Los Angeles. Researchers had elderly participants take part in an eight-week meditation program, and then they compared blood samples they took from each of them before the program […]
Categories: Benefits of Meditation, Blog, Meditation Tips
You’ve probably heard that meditation is a powerful tool that can be used to improve your mind, but did you know that meditation can also improve your physical appearance? It’s true. Believe it or not, when you have a healthy mind and attitude, it shines through in your physical appearance. Here are four ways you […]
Categories: Benefits of Meditation, Blog
For generations, many people have been skeptical of meditation. They wonder if can actually do anything for you at all, and if it’s all just a bunch of guru-nonsense. Now that scientists are able to literally look into the human mind through the use of MRI – magnetic resonance imaging – machines, they are finally […]
Categories: Benefits of Meditation, Blog, Healthcare and Meditation, Meditation and Sleep, Pain Management
The “C” word is enough to make your heart skip a beat. Cancer. No one wants it. Some people get it and chances are, you will know someone who has had it. More than 12 million new cancer cases were recorded worldwide in 2008, and the number continues to grow. By the year 2030, it […]
Categories: Benefits of Meditation, Blog, Healthcare and Meditation, Positive Thoughts
Our immune systems work overtime to keep us healthy and healed. Science shows that meditation benefits the immune systems and helps keeps it in tip-top shape. But what about an immune system that has been greatly debilitated, like an HIV patient? (more…)
Categories: Benefits of Meditation, Blog, Enlightenment, Meditation and Emotions
Why Does Mediation Work? It seems an awful lot like people sitting around and doing nothing. And it is. Kind of like nights where you catch up on the DVR. But with meditation, you’re not being entertained or distracted. You put down the phone. You turn the computer, TV and music off. You’re not at […]
