Meditation has always struck me as an inefficient use of valuable time. My distinctly Protestant understanding of prayer allowed me to come before God, unencumbered by intercessors or ritualized ...

"I'm a big fan of an active meditation," the "High School Musical" alum tells PEOPLE Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work ...

Talk to anyone who practices meditation and you’ll learn tuning into your subconscious and tuning out the outer world can lead to peace of mind and new realizations to varying degrees. However, ...

A recent study published in Communications Biology offers evidence that a 7-day mind-body retreat combining meditation, ...

The virtues of meditation and mindfulness are being extolled almost everywhere. Research has shown the practice of meditation can have positive benefits on emotional well-being and physical health and ...

The late Harvard psychologist Daniel Wegner wrote a classic paper in 1987 called Paradoxical Effects of Thought Suppression. 1 He demonstrated that the more you try not to think about something—the ...

“Badass spiritual teacher” reads like some sort of an oxymoron. But I can’t seem to find any other way to accurately describe meditation leader to the stars, Biet Simkin. The phrase just seems to fit ...

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June 3, 2010 (New Orleans, Louisiana) — Meditation may help improve drinking and substance abuse behaviors in active duty service personnel undergoing treatment in a residential program, according to ...