meditation

Workplace yoga, meditation help stress

harminka — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:51:19 -0500

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.

New Meditation Center Opens In San Diego

Armen Hareyan — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:57:26 -0500

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!

Being compassionate useful

seher — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:07:47 -0500

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

Transcendental Meditation In Focus As Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Dies

Armen Hareyan — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:23:02 -0600

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.

Body-mind meditation boosts performance, reduces stress

harminka — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:05:08 -0500

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.

Study finds meditators' brains appear 'surprisingly alert'

Dinka — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 10:59:35 -0500

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.

Therapeutic value of meditation unproven

harminka — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:44:20 -0500

“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.

Older Americans Not Discussing Complementary and Alternative

harminka — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:24:40 -0600