As people of all ages complain about the growing stresses of everyday life, a new study suggests meditation might help. Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have discovered that ...

Meditation might help a person's gut health -- but it takes a lot of meditation over a long time. Tibetan Buddhist monks appear to have gut microbes that differ substantially from others living near ...

December 21 has been designated World Meditation Day by the United Nations. The practice can change not only our bodies, but ...

Many anecdotes and some studies suggest that meditation can be a powerful tool for mental and physical health. New research shows that it may have yet another benefit: to help us learn faster from ...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have found that an intensive retreat combining multiple mind-body techniques, including meditation and healing practices, produced rapid and ...

Meditation is certainly having its moment in the sun. Originally an ancient Eastern practice, meditation has permeated mainstream Western culture. Meditation, in its purest form, is the practice of ...

After 35 years of group work—learning hundreds of interventions, dozens of theories and facilitating thousands of patients—I may have stumbled on the most powerful intervention I’ve seen in group: a ...