New research published in Psychoneuroendocrinology has found that long-term meditation practitioners have a faster cortisol recovery from stress. The findings suggest the practicing meditation can improve the psychophysiological response to stress by reducing self-conscious emotions. “Stress is responsible for a variety of negative health outcomes, and takes a toll on quality of life and well-being. Thus, research on behavioral approaches that can help to attenuate the stress response is of utmost importance,” explained study author Liudmila Gamaiunova, a PhD candidate at the University of Lausanne.

Confidence is a heavily misunderstood concept. Confidence cannot be faked. You can fake and manufacture motivation, excitement, or even passion at the moment. Unlike motivation and other emotional states which are more surface level, confidence is deeper and more subconscious. In this article, I’m going to breakdown what confidence is and why most people don’t have much of it.

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On this special Losar episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken travels to Kathmandu to speak with Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, world-renowned teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and founder of the Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Nepal. In this special teaching, Rinpoche shares his past life memories and talks about his own experiences with the continuity of…

Mindfulness can enhance the quality of life in chronic pain sufferers, new research suggests. The findings add weight to previous studies, which found that mindfulness might have the power to reduce pain severity by half. This new meta-analysis, published in the peer-reviewed journal Evidence-Based Mental Health, analyzed the evidence from 21 previous studies involving 2,000 chronic pain sufferers. It was designed to assess whether mindfulness was as effective as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for relieving chronic pain and its associated distress.

Here's why you should be happy the next time you have a pile of dishes in the sink.

At the meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington, DC, there are 30,000 delegates. And one of them has changed the way the others look at desire. Amy Fleming meets Dr Kent Berridge...

Just back from a delightful trip to Barcelona and Berlin, I have been thinking a lot about how we, Americans handle the stresses of all we do, especially compared to Europeans. Everyday stress has bee

Mindfulness allows you to cope with difficult and painful thoughts, feelings & sensations. Download our series of mp3 mindfulness exercises to get started.

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This relaxing sleep meditation led by Deepak Chopra will help you overcome insomnia and settle in to deep sleep.

By charting new pathways in the brain, mindfulness can change the banter inside our heads from chaotic to calm.

Can meditation really slow down the effects of age? One Nobel Prize-winner is finding the scientific in the spiritual, writes Jo Marchant.

Many people have great difficulty establishing a regular daily practice. Here are some tips to help you establish regular mindfulness practice.

Whether it’s TV, alcohol, drugs, or food, most of us use something to zone out. But what if we created kinder minds so we didn't need to escape ourselves?

Mindful speaks to Craving to Quit founder Judson Brewer about the research behind the smoking-cessation program and accompanying app. 

You know those days when everything seems to go wrong? I had one of those days recently. Here's how I stopped feeling sorry for myself.

During your workday, do you feel comfortable in your own skin, or ready to jump out of it? Here are five ways to get more grounded in the workplace.

I’d like to share a few of the fantastic benefits that I've experienced with meditation in the hopes that maybe you could experience them too.

Our generation is not willing to settle for meaningless existence, just to get by. We want more joy and purpose. Here's how we can find it.

How students (and teachers) are improving focus and finding calm through weekly meditation classes.

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Corporate culture has stripped the ancient practice of mindfulness of its spirituality and re-branded it as a modern solution to over-work.

Upon completion of the evaluation, the doctors have advised that His Holiness take complete rest.

Like blotting paper, we soak up and absorb the world around us but it is vital to our empowerment to remember that we have the choice to change that habit.

Spiritual teacher Stephen Bodian writes about going beyond mindfulness--using meditation to be aware of what is, not to detach from it.

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Nothing lasts forever. Now is the time to appreciate each other and enjoy the moments of our lives.

Maybe part of being happy is not avoiding suffering. Maybe to experience happiness we actually have to experience everything else, including sadness.

Chronic ails in midlife forced Sunada to reevaluate the path she was on. She found Buddhism, gave up her high tech career, and dedicated her life to helping others. Tell us a little about your background… I was born in Tokyo in 1957, the youngest..

“To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.”

Kill stress and gain perspective by way of creative expression.

The greatest gift is the gift of the teachings, and here there are many to be had. A list of over 17000 talks/retreats/guided meditations from a range of speakers, both prominent and otherwise all available to stream or download.

The concept of flow was popularized by positive psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, who researched this type of enjoyable immersion by speaking to ...