The use of meditation in a therapeutic setting has been used for psychological approaches. This is mostly due to using mindfulness meditation for stress reduction. However, there have been different perspectives on the benefits of meditation such as the cognitive, emotional, and neuropsychological changes that are the result of extensive practice and training. Meditation has […]
Researchers Haggai Sharon, Adi Maron-Katz, Eti Ben Simon, Yuval Flusser, Talma Hendler, Ricardo Tarrasch, and Silviu Brill aimed to examine whether mindfulness meditation-induced analgesia involves endogenous opioids. Previous studies supported the advantageous effects that mindfulness meditation had on pain perception (Zeidan et al., 2011). However, the mechanisms behind the meditation-induced analgesia had not been adequately […]
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Get startedSleep Changes Due to Mindfulness Meditation Earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that insufficient sleep is a public health problem (Lichtenstein, 2015). According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (as cited in Lichtenstein, 2015), people with sleep deficiency have a greater risk of many health complications, including heart […]
What Is Meditation? For our purposes, let’s define meditation as being attentive to the fluctuations of your mind. Most of the time, we completely identify with our own thoughts, meaning there is no separation between the thoughts and the thinker. Meditation begins to break down this relationship. There are many different schools of meditation, each […]
A loved one’s death, sudden unemployment, broken relationships — these are just some of the painful situations people around the world go through. It’s common to feel burdened or sad when these unfortunate events occur. But, some people have it worse. Depression is a common mental illness worldwide. In fact, more than 300 million people […]
How many of us catch ourselves struggling through the day and not getting the proper amount of sleep that we require? Some of us do not get time to sleep or to even relax, especially students, who can barely get 6 hours of sleep. Sleep is an essential requirement of the body. According to a […]
If we look around our self there is a link or bond between living organisms. From tiny insect to a advance human, there are somehow relations between them. It may seem senseless but if we take a close look to know how relation develops we found answer outstanding. Let us take example of Adam, first […]
There you are, 8:30 am standing in the crowded subway platform, suddenly, it is announced that the next train will be extremely delayed because of malfunction. Immediately, you feel a sharp tension increase in your surroundings, people start breathing heavily, pacing unrestedly, you hear them cursing to themselves, tightening their jaws, calling their workplace to […]
