Categories: Benefits of Meditation, Blog, Healthcare and Meditation, Positive Thoughts
Meditation, which is the practice of training one’s mind, has been gaining a lot of steam lately thanks to an abundance of new scientific research showing the practice has real benefits. As you probably already know, meditation is a helpful tool for relieving stress, so it should come as no surprise that meditation can benefit […]
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 and Emotions, Positive Thoughts
Empathy is the ability to recognize and relate to the emotions another person or sentient being is feeling. If we did not possess empathy, we would not be able to be compassionate towards one another. However, some people do not naturally have enough empathy to truly feel compassion. In other words, you might be sympathetic […]
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: Affirmations, Benefits of Meditation, Meditation and Emotions
Your to do list seems a mile long. Everything seems to be falling apart and you’re needed in five different places. Maybe you lost someone, the ends aren’t meeting, or the pressure and stress of work and family are too much. You need an outlet. Possibly exercise or yoga. Maybe a drink. Others might fall […]
Categories: Benefits of Meditation, Healthcare and Meditation
Calling someone crazy is generally meant in jest, but real mental disorders and illnesses are no laughing matter. One in four American adults experience a mental health disorder in a given year. About 2.4 million Americans, or 1.1 percent of the adult population, lives with schizophrenia. Living and functioning in day to day life with […]
Categories: Benefits of Meditation
The quest for eternal life and the fountain of youth is an age old myth, but imagine enjoying your life — family, friends, food, the outdoors — longer. Not living forever, but doing something that could actually help you live longer and happier? Good news, you can. Mindfulness meditation can lengthen your life expectancy, according […]
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…)
