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Transcendental Meditation encourages a state of awareness by avoiding distracting thoughts. He says the great thing about meditation is that he can do it anywhere. Mr. Oberholtzer lives in Santa Monica, Calif., and flies to San Francisco at least once a week for work. He often meditates on the short plane ride. Read more here…

Mindfulness is everywhere at the moment. If you don’t know someone who has done a course, downloaded an app or read a book, you will soon. Based on centuries-old Buddhist meditation practices and breathing exercises, it is prescribed to thousands of patients on the NHS each year to help prevent anxiety, depression and stress. Read more here…

The reason meditation is so popular amongst successful individuals is it helps release stress, let go of excess thoughts and expand awareness. As you dive deeper into your meditation, you see people, events and circumstances as they really are, not as they are perceived to be. Read more here…

What we found, was that right after the treatment the cognitive therapy was better for improving some of the sleep duration and sleep efficiency. But three months later, the mindfulness had caught up and help helped people improve their insomnia. Read more here…

Meditation, long associated with unwashed hippies and robed gurus, has recently been shown to boost focus, reduce stress, and improve the immune system. Brain scans suggest it can literally grow the gray matter in areas associated with well-being and compassion. Read more here…

While Buddhists have been practising the meditation technique for more than 2,000 years, medical science is finally beginning to catch up, discovering the extent to which focusing the mind on the present moment can help treat a range of mental conditions associated with cancer recovery. Read more here…

Mindfulness meditation was found to allow test subjects more time to think about their decisions rationally, thus increasing they odds of them reconsidering their initial positions after new evidence pops up. With short periods of practice, it is very likely that individuals who want to improve the way in which they make decisions, or the speed at which they do this, can achieve their goals.  Read more here…

Meditating participants also felt less depressed and less emotionally exhausted, according to Nidich and his coauthors. But meditation seemed to have the strongest effect on stress levels, they note in their report, published in the Permanente Journal. Read more here…

We found that a brief period of mindfulness meditation can encourage people to make more rational decisions by considering the information available in the present moment, while ignoring some of the other concerns that typically exacerbate the ‘sunk-cost bias,’” explains Hafenbrack. Read more here…

According to the researchers, during this particular meditation technique one experiences a deep state of restful alertness. Repeated experience of this state for 20 minutes twice a day cultures the nervous system to maintain settled mental and physical functioning the rest of the day. This helps to minimize disturbing thoughts, sleep difficulties, and other adverse PTSD symptoms. Read more here…