[ Mind & Meditation ]

If you’ve visited your local chrome, mirror and fern workout gym lately no doubt you’ve seen hundreds of people popping on their headphones and listening to some kind of mind numbing music or watching TV while they jump on weight machines, treadmill, stair climber, free weights or elliptical trainer. And the venues usually have something [...]

The first time I heard the word Namaste, I thought perhaps it was the equivalent of gesundheit. A sort of utterance after a sneeze to ward off the evil spirits of bad health, only it was said every time yoga class was about to begin and again at the end. Eventually I noticed a gesture [...]

Push-ups, crunches, gyms, personal trainers — people have many strategies for building bigger muscles and stronger bones.
But what can one do to build a bigger brain?
That’s the finding from a group of researchers at UCLA who used high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to scan the brains of people who meditate. In a study published in [...]

Many aspects of American life are taken as is with little question. Speed. Productivity. Work. Time. Money. Success. There is a latent feeling that we have to be doing something, all the time. We can choose to live this way, certainly, but it’s important to realize that it is exactly that: one choice. There are [...]