A single week of intensive meditation and mind-body practices led to measurable changes across the brain and body. Researchers observed improved brain efficiency, boosted immune signaling, and ...

“I spent most of my 6th-grade year locked in my bedroom,” my friend David states. He puts his cup of coffee down on the table and looks directly at me. “Can you imagine?” “No,” I reply. I can’t ...

Recovery from addiction is rarely a straight line. For decades, the dominant model of treatment focused primarily on detox, counseling, and medication management. These remain foundational and ...

There are many ways to meditate, but I have learned there are some basic ways to support and promote healing by connecting with breath and mind. This aids in fighting feelings such as anxiety and ...

One of my favorite meditation instructors likes to say that meditation is the thing we’re all really happy other people do. We know meditation has countless mental and physical health benefits, but ...

Patel and colleagues took 20 healthy adults and dropped them into a seven-day retreat that was part classroom, part monastery ...

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan - Combat stress; traumatic brain injury; close calls; friends lost; friends hurt; repeat deployments to war zones; and being away from loved ones for long stretches of ...

As I witnessed the droning sounds of Tarek Atoui’s hybrid sculpture performance Organ Within at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, I noticed a family of four—two young parents with two ...

Call it sound healing, sound meditations or sound baths, participation in the sessions is booming. Some have a waiting list ...