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A new research study finds that people become more politically liberal following meditation or other spiritually oriented experiences. Read more here…

The 2011 study found that meditation increased activity of telomerase — enzymes that can rebuild and lengthen our chromosomal telomeres — when meditation was conducted twice a week for three months.  It is currently believed by some researchers that telomere lengthening can increase the lifespan.  Read more here….

A Meditation of the Way of the Cross is organised on Ghammar Hill, which is located in front of the Ta’ Pinu Sanctuary at Gharb, this coming Sunday, the 17th of March, starting at 6.00pm. Read more here…

For individuals, mindfulness is exciting because it helps us to discover new and powerful dimensions of ourselves. For groups and organizations, mindfulness is exciting because it can lead to better communication, greater empathy, and a culture of creativity and innovation. Read more here…

Who says you need to move to an ashram in India to learn how to meditate? Oprah Winfrey and Deepak Chopra are offering a quick and easy way to adopt this ancient practice that promises to improve relationships, psychological and physical health, sleep quality, and mood starting right now. Read more here….

An event to benefit Healing Newtown, a project created by the Newtown Cultural Arts Commission and supported by the Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut and the Connecticut Office of the Arts, will feature musicians from the New York Philharmonic in a performance at Western Connecticut State University beginning at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 9, in Ives Concert Hall in White Hall on the WCSU Midtown campus, 181 White St. Read more here….

Stoner, a Quincy native, has helped teach more than 100 veterans with disabilities to play the guitar. Six String Heroes, a St. Louis based nonprofit, uses the guitar to help those with post traumatic stress disorder and other disabilities cope with their difficulties. Once trained, the veterans jam together once a week. Read more here…

That art can inspire dramatic social or political change is a romantic idea, if sometimes a specious one. But for some, such as Irish folk singer Tommy Sands, the power of music to affect change is ironclad. Read more here….

Operation Music Aid, based in Madison, Connecticut, was founded to supply guitars and keyboards to wounded military service personnel now in military hospitals for extended care. The nonprofit supplies the instruments to the hospitals and they are distributed as needed to assist in physical and psychological rehabilitation, as well as for morale. Read more here….

Dr. Temple Grandin, an autism activist, was first diagnosed with the disorder when she was just a toddler. Before discovering that she had autism, doctors first mis-diagnosed her with brain damage. Fortunately her parents took a proactive approach to the news. Read more here….