In a guest column, a university professor urges higher education to address mounting stress on college campuses by offering students instruction in the proven calming effect of meditation. Research is ...

The events of the past few months have taught us, among other things, how little control we have over our destiny. A major crisis, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, can come unexpectedly at any point of ...

How do you get college students learning? I run a cognitive science research lab where I study mind and language. Throughout my teaching career, I have always gone old school, the Socratic way. Throw ...

If you are thinking about starting to meditate, it might be difficult to navigate the overwhelming numbers of self-help books on meditation and online meditation advice of varied quality. Why meditate ...

Meditation and foreign language training does not boost cognitive function in cognitively healthy older adults, a new study suggests. The findings are similar to results from another study published ...

Sometimes it comes on softly, a dull ache that hums deep within your knees, hips, back or ankles. Other times it attacks the joints of your hands in sharp, quick jabs like a hornet or coils around the ...

Feeling stressed out, burned out, irritable and anxious? Dr. Edwards Smith has a prescription for you: Try Transcendental Meditation. The twice-daily meditation technique has been shown to lower blood ...

GRAND RAPIDS — A person could float on the silence. In the room at Unity Church, where four people are meditating, there is no scuffling, fidgeting or effort apparent as Marcia Grice’s group quiets ...

Scientists say that snack-sized meditation for five minutes at your work desk is one of the best career tools to reduce job ...