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By turning everyday activities into meditation moments, you can bring more mindfulness, clarity, and peace into your day while energizing yourself and reducing stress. Read more here…

Though the practices of yoga and meditation have their roots in ancient cultures, they’ve both become modern day movements. More than 20 million Americans meditate regularly, according to the 2007 National Health Interview Survey. More than 13 million do yoga. Read more here…

Reduce stress with yoga, tai chi, meditation. We all can recognize feelings of stress overload, and they are not pleasant. A tightening of muscles, headaches, anxiety, sleeplessness, a racing heartbeat and blood pressure that feels way too high. With overloaded schedules, deadlines and everyday hassles, stress seems inevitable.  Read more here…

The words “zen” and “child” don’t exactly go together, but that hasn’t stopped a growing number of parents from “ohm schooling” their kids in the art of yoga, meditation and relaxation. Read more here…

These brief mindfulness meditations don’t require sitting like a pretzel or sniffing incense, not that there is any thing wrong with a traditional meditation practice if you have the time. Read more here…

Walking is a great way to integrate mindfulness into your everyday life and has been practiced as a meditative technique for thousands of years. But in everyday life, walking is usually an established and habituated action that requires very little concentration. Read more here…

Meditation may change your genes. Its no gimmick. The field of mind-body genomics offers fascinating discoveries and much promise. Read more here…

According to Psychology Today, “the act of meditating can shift people’s thoughts from the stress-prone right frontal cortex to the calmer left frontal cortex. This mental shift decreases the negative effects of stress, mild depression and anxiety.” Read more here…

Since stress is the major cause of 21st century lifestyle diseases, the age-old technique of meditation comes to your rescue. Here is how you can meditate and also find out the health benefits of meditation. Read more here…

A US-born musician with a rising career. And it was an encounter with a traditional Chinese meditation practice that inspired him to expand his music. Falun Gong, the practice that changed Drew’s musical career, is a traditional Chinese meditation and self-improvement discipline. Read more here…