Twenty minutes per day of guided workplace meditation and yoga combined with six weekly group sessions can lower feelings of stress by more than 10 percent and improve sleep quality in sedentary office employees, a pilot study suggests.

We have a new place to meditate in San Diego, CA at Holistixs of San Diego. The Center is located on Pacific Beach at 2004 Hornblend St. (Hornblend and Morrell) Meditation is at 7:30 PM on Wednesdays. All are welcome! No Charge!

A new study shows practicing kindness and compassion through regular meditation actually activates the brain and makes people more empathetic to others.

The death of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has raised many people's interest toward Transcendental Meditation. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was the founder of the Transcendental Meditation program.

A team of researchers from China and the University of Oregon have developed an approach for neuroscientists to study how meditation might provide improvements in a person's attention and response to stress.

People who meditate show signs they are surprisingly alert, the first study of its kind has found. Australian PhD researcher Dylan DeLosAngeles, at the Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide, shows that meditation produces changes in brainwaves usually associated with increased alertness.

“There is an enormous amount of interest in using meditation as a form of therapy to cope with a variety of modern-day health problems, especially hypertension, stress and chronic pain, but the majority of evidence that seems to support this notion is anecdotal, or it comes from poor quality studies,” say Maria Ospina and Kenneth Bond, researchers at the University of Alberta/Capital Health Evidence-based Practice Center in Edmonton, Canada.