One overbooked reporter shares her first experience with group meditation. April 15, 2011— -- I have always been intrigued by the idea of meditation. I would love to be able to sit quietly, relax ...

After 35 years of group work—learning hundreds of interventions, dozens of theories and facilitating thousands of patients—I may have stumbled on the most powerful intervention I’ve seen in group: a ...

You’ve probably heard that meditation increases focus, memory, and compassion, according to a range of studies. Yet only 8% of us do it. This number could get a boost soon, as several companies ...

found the improvement after just eight weeks. The 15 participants, ages 52 to 77, all had memory problems at the start, minutes, and out loud for two minutes. The participants were asked to do the ...

Making New Year’s resolutions for 2022 has become less a matter of aspiration than of urgency. With our collective blood pressure on the rise and a host of other pandemic-induced stresses ticking up, ...

Usually we assume that a positive experience will boost our feelings of positive emotion. But a new study, led by University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, psychologist Barbara Fredrickson, considers ...

The Rochester Meditation Center, created in 2004, hosts thrice-weekly meditation meet-ups over Zoom and in person to promote self-reflection, stress relief and kinship Community members participate in ...

For some reason, there is a bit of a stigma around meditation. The Western world has been slow to pick up more holistic forms of healing, but if we’ve managed to take a liking to Chinese herbs, yoga, ...