If meditation doesn't come easily to you, trying a new approach could help you have more success. Examples include listening to resonant sound, gazing at a candle or mirror, and focusing on chakras.

And yet, despite this reassurance, many of us struggle to begin meditating. If personal experience with feeling confused and uninspired by your nascent meditation practice isn’t enough to convince you ...

Practicing meditation can help you focus and feel more connected to the present moment. In doing so, you can also benefit your health by lowering stress, achieving higher self-awareness, and improving ...

Many beginner meditators, myself included, start out with a mindful breathing meditation: one breath in, one breath out, the mind wanders, you bring it back. Armed with an app guiding me through this ...

Meditation seems to be a loaded topic for a lot of people. There are those who think learning how to meditate is either religious or sacrilegious. Some think you have to work too hard at it or give ...

We are used to hearing that meditation is good for the brain, but now it seems that not just any kind of meditation will do. Just like physical exercise, the kind of improvements you get depends on ...

Not many of us are in a position to improve our gut health by moving to Tibet and becoming Buddhist monks. Living the monastic life of a Tibetan Buddhist monk is extreme and not an option for most ...

Dusana Dorjee has received funding in support of her research on meditation from the British Academy, the Mind and Life Institute and the ESRC. She also works for a community interest company ...

'Meditative Story,' brainchild of Arianna Huffington and Deron Triff, shown here, discussing the new approach to mindfulness meditation on The Today Show. Source: Photo compliments of Arianna ...