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“There is plenty of evidence that meditation can improve a host of issues, such as pain and cognitive function, and anxiety is perhaps at the top of the list,” explained lead author Fadel Zeidan, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow in neurobiology and anatomy at Wake Forest School of Medicine, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Read more here…

Scientists have found that meditation can reduce anxiety by as much as 39 per cent and have also identified the brain functions involved. Read more here…

Even more, our values and beliefs color the entire fabric of existence. After all, if a pickpocket sees a saint all he sees are pockets. People for whom only success or wealth are important become blind to simple beauty, moments of tenderness, the ability to enjoy what they have instead of always wanting more. A glass is half empty or half-full not because of how much liquid is in it, but because of what we believe. Read more here…

Music therapy has existed formally as a discipline since the 1940s, though its antecedents stretch back to the early 1900s. It can be used in a number of different clinical situations: with children with autism-spectrum diagnoses, older people with Alzheimer’s, those in correctional facilities, and those with chronic pain, among others. Read more here…

Golfers take a swing at yoga at Abu Dhabi Golf Club. The yoga teacher Pem Fassa recently started lessons aimed specifically at those who enjoy smashing a small, dimpled ball around a grassy expanse. Read more here…

Mindfulness meditation — nonjudgmental awareness of thoughts and emotions — is known for its anxiety-busting powers, and now scientists are getting a better understanding of why it has this impact in the brain. Read more here…

> Meditation in Action: Unleashing Your Limitless Potential. It is often said that as human beings we’ve have limitless potential. But how can we practically apply this to our experience of meditation? How can we use this idea to motivate us in our daily practice? Read more here…

These days, top money managers are meditating. So is US Representative Tim Ryan (D-Ohio). He wrote a book on the subject, “A Mindful Meditation,” and says that to his knowledge, no colleagues have accused him of going New Age. Eager to lower stress-related business costs — $300 billion annually in the United States, according to the World Health Organization — corporate America is getting in on the action. Read more here…

Meditation is a state wherein the mind is calm, pure, positive, caring, lo­v­ing, com­pas­sio­na­te and frie­ndly. Th­is state acts as a bri­dge between one’s in­ner self and the external world whi­ch is, in fact, a ref­lection of the in­ner self. The pu­rer the inner self is, the better the external world be­comes. Meditation purifies the inner self. Everyone must strive to achieve this state of me­di­ta­tion as early in life as possible. Read more here…

According to Sanford Nidich, Ed.D, co-author and professor of education at Maharishi University of Management, “These results are the first to show that the Transcendental Meditation program can have a positive impact on student graduation rates. The largest effect was found in the most academically challenged students. Recently published research on increased academic achievement and reduced psychological stress in urban school students may provide possible mechanisms for the higher graduation rates found in this study.” Read more here…