Mindfulness: Improves Overall Brain Function.

Modern life has the beat poets, 60's gurus and teachers, and a resurgence in recent years of all these traditions.

Improve Your Brain in Five Minutes A Day: Sit Still.

So let's take a minute to be mindful. Having trouble? You could take a trip to northeastern Thailand and live with the monks.

Meditation: An Antidote To Multitasking.

I first started meditating when I was eight. When you are eight and someone farts in a silent meditation room, it is really funny.

Meditation increases concentration.

The question is whether people who do better at boring concentration exercises choose to become meditators.

Loneliness

Too often we don't listen to ourselves and fill our days with activity to push away the loneliness we feel inside.  We may even find a cause, or a belief system, that we follow zealously to avoid the empty feeling.  But true human connection has more to do with being with one another without judgment …