Researchers compared the immediate effects of hypnosis, mindfulness meditation, and Christian prayer on pain intensity and tolerance. The results suggested that a single session of hypnosis and ...

It's dusk on a September Tuesday as two dozen people step, silently and deliberately, around a twisting brick courtyard path at St. John's Episcopal Cathedral. A few walk barefoot. Some carry candles ...

In 1975, Herbert Benson, M.D., a professor of medicine at The Harvard Medical School, published a national best-seller, "The Relaxation Response." In his book Benson described the effects of chronic ...

A national survey of more than 26,000 U.S. adults conducted by the Centers for Disease Control found that the use of meditation increased more than threefold between 2012 and 2017, from 4.2 percent to ...

“How you react to the world tells you more about yourself than it tells you about the world.” That’s Carmine Anastasio, an adjunct philosophy professor at the University of Dayton, and former adjunct ...

Meditation is one of the most calming ways to press pause on a fast-paced life and sink into a few moments of mindfulness. It helps you take a much-needed mental break from all that noise around and ...

If the stress of your day is keeping you up at night and culminating in a nasty cycle of exhaustion and insomnia, you might benefit from guided sleep meditation. Now more than ever, people are having ...