In recent years, mindfulness meditation, rooted in Buddhist traditions, has gained widespread interest in psychology and beyond. Amid a performance-driven culture, where achievement often outweighs ...

(RNS) Many Christians are finding mindfulness practice to be not just compatible but complimentary to their faith. They discover within these Buddhist-derived practices not only a key to renewal and ...

(The Conversation) — Mindfulness can improve health and well-being, but it may not work for everyone. Buddhist teachings suggest that how it is practiced – and who guides it – matters. (The ...

In recent months, we’ve seen an onslaught of reactions to the election—people are calling their senators, protesting, figuring out productive ways to change things that aren’t working. At the same ...

Thich Nhat Hanh: mudra of compassion. This photo was taken while his monks and nuns were offering the compassion chant at his European Institute of Applied Buddhism in Germany. (c. 2009) (© Plum ...

“Wisdom 2.0?” meditation teacher Kenneth Folk has famously pondered. “That’s a networking opportunity with a light dressing of Buddhism.” If mindfulness has gone corporate, then Wisdom 2.0 is its ...

“Focus on one breath and then the next … and then the next.” “Everything you kind of do at college, at Tufts particularly, you're doing with some kind of goal in mind,” Schifrin said. “You're not ...

Mindfulness is big business, worth in excess of US$1.0 billion in the US alone and linked – somewhat paradoxically – to an expanding range of must have products. These include downloadable apps (1300 ...

Mindfulness as a psychological aid is very much in fashion. Recent reports on the latest finding suggested that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is as effective as anti-depressants in preventing ...