Study finds no evidence of structural brain changes associated with short-term mindfulness training.
Up to 46% of Americans help manage their mental health and reduce anxiety by taking 5 to 10-minute breaks throughout the day to focus on mindfulness.
Mindful meditation may help people cope when faced with action crises, researchers say.
Practicing mindfulness when your mind is wandering can help you regain attention, researchers report.
Many people claim meditation helps to relieve their daily stresses. A new study provides objective evidence which supports the claims. Researchers found cortisol levels from hair samples decreased by 25% following a six-month meditation training program.
Mindfulness and meditation may offer small but significant benefits to cognition, especially in older adults.
Mindful meditation causes those who consider themselves to be more "independent-minded" or egocentric to become less generous and more selfish, researchers report.
Mindfulness training can help increase optimism, enhance positive mood, and negate some of the effects of stress by improving mental health in school-aged children.
Often touted as helping to improve personal mental states, a new study reveals mindfulness can actually make people more selfish. Those who consider themselves to be more independent-minded, rather than having a pluralistic mindset, demonstrate a decrease in prosocial behavior following mindful meditation.
In most community settings, compared with doing nothing, mindfulness reduced stress, anxiety, depression, and increased wellbeing. However, in some cases, mindfulness may be no better than other practices to reduce anxiety and depression.
Mindfulness-based stress reduction can help reduce symptoms of neuropathic pain in breast cancer survivors.
On-the-spot binaural beats and daily mindfulness training can help reduce the effects of mental fatigue.
