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GEELONG schools are turning to wellbeing programs and meditation to help students stay calm, happy and focused in the face of growing social media and academic pressures. Read more here…

The results showed that two weeks of meditative training on compassion made the participants become more compassionate than the control group. Also, the more changes that they saw in the brain regions that seem to activate when showing compassion, the more compassionate the response was. Read more here…

Mindfulness meditation. Chances are that you’ve either heard or seen (or rolled your eyes at) these words in recent months, as studies, celebrity endorsements, and even apps continue to make headlines. Read more here…

Tai chi is purported to be good for all health concerns. A number of renowned tai chi masters are said to have experienced sickness in the past from which they could find no relief until they began to practice tai chi. Such reports, however, are merely anecdotes, and may not represent actual benefit. Read more here…

Yoga promotes weight loss internally. As in the yoga poses not only work on your body on a physical level, but also harness the power of your ‘chitta’ or your ‘inner self’ to help you lose weight fast. To put in understandable terms, yoga helps in weight loss by stimulating your internal organs. Read more here…

Regular meditation reduces inflammation, improves immunity, and strengthens areas of the brain related to empathy and emotional processing, among other benefits. By contrast, studies show that pessimism and negativity fuel inflammation and chronic disease, assaulting DNA, hastening the aging process, and increasing risks of cancer. Read more here…

Many think meditation as merely a way to relax the body and mind. For the saints and mystics, meditation has been the way to find God. Through meditation, we also find answers to questions about what happens to us after death and whether there is life after. Read more here…

Mindfulness will undoubtedly help you get some headspace and make a difference in your life. But there’s another good reason for training the mind. Whether we like it or not, we share the world in which we live with other people and, unless we want to live as a solitary yogi or hermit in the mountains, we’re always going to have to interact with others. Read more here…

Vipassana is a silent 10 day meditation retreat. You can’t talk or look at or touch anyone, and you spend 11 hours a day meditating. The simple act of sitting still is excrutiating when you can’t move a muscle for an hour. You feel pain even in your fingertips because the blood is pooling and you can’t move them. Read more here…

 Teaching children a form of meditation called ‘mindfulness’ – a psychological technique which focuses awareness and attention – can reduce a pupil’s stress levels meaning their mental health improves. Read more here…