There’s a backlash brewing against mindfulness at work. “Corporations have jumped on the mindfulness bandwagon because it conveniently shifts the burden onto the individual employee,” write Ron Purser ...

Sarah Hays Coomer is a Mayo Clinic and National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, certified personal trainer and author based in Nashville, Tennessee. She has spent nearly 20 years helping ...

During the past two decades, more and more scientists have studied mindfulness—a Buddhist-inspired collection of practices aimed at helping us to cultivate moment-to-moment awareness of ourselves and ...

When life feels uncertain, your mind often races—thinking about “what ifs” and worst-case scenarios. That’s a normal response to stress. But staying stuck in those thoughts can increase anxiety, ...

Many of us today are living at a fast pace, and we can find ourselves overwhelmed by constant demands and distractions. Someone juggling multiple responsibilities, such as a working parent, a student ...

Mindfulness meditation combines the concepts of mindfulness and meditation. When you are mindful, you remain present in the moment. You are aware of what’s going on around you while staying connected ...

Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is a complementary therapy. It uses mindfulness techniques to help people cope with mental or physical health conditions. The professor Jon Kabat-Zinn ...

Mindfulness activities may help teens and students reduce stress and anxiety, manage their emotions, and pay attention to the present. Mindfulness exercises may also help with mild depression in teens ...

Mindfulness may have many benefits – but the latest research shows it can also make some people more selfish. Mindfulness is said to do many things for our psyche: it can increase our self-control, ...

Mindfulness—the practice of paying attention and staying present in the moment—has increasingly gained popularity in recent years. After spending the last year researching and writing my new book, ...

Students who engaged with the meditation practice benefitted but many were bored by it, say researchers School-based mindfulness training does not appear to boost wellbeing or improve the mental ...