Categories: Healthcare and Meditation
It’s no secret that meditation has been gaining steam in the west for a very long time now. As its popularity continues to increase, more and more scientists are becoming interested in testing its effectiveness, and the studies keep producing positive results time and time again. Researchers are mostly interested in seeing how well meditation […]
Categories: Meditating for Success
You’re standing up in front of a room full of people, and you’ve just dived into your speech that you’ve rehearsed a million times, when all of a sudden, something terrible happens: you forget your lines. Even worse, as you try to recover from the awkward silence and get back on track, you do it clumsily, stuttering […]
Categories: Healthcare and Meditation, Meditation and Emotions
One of the topics we’ve discussed many times on this blog is how mindfulness meditation can help with depression. It’s not uncommon for people to be skeptical of this claim. Drugs, along with cognitive therapy, have been the standard methods for treating depression going back as far as the 1960’s, and when a person seeks […]
Categories: Blog, Meditation and Military
Deployment is one of the most stressful things a soldier has to deal with. Obviously, whenever a soldier is deployed, there is the risk of being injured in combat. Soldiers also have to deal with the stress of leaving their loved ones behind, which may include their spouse and children. In fact, deployment is not […]
Categories: Benefits of Meditation, Blog, Healthcare and Meditation, Meditation and Emotions, Meditation and Military, Positive Thoughts
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a very serious mental illness, and depression is one of the major symptoms, along with stress and anxiety. PTSD typically affects people who have gone through a physically and/or emotionally traumatic experience, especially soldiers. As surprising as it may seem, more soldiers die from suicide than combat these days. Depression […]
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 […]
