There’s a common misconception that meditation involves achieving some state of enlightenment or ease. If you’re distracted by a single thought, you’re not doing meditation correctly. That simply ...

Sitting still can almost feel like torture at times, so when I think of meditation, I'll admit I'm not always excited to jump into it. Although I can say that, once I'm in it, I love it, but to ...

Cultivating mindfulness is the key to overcoming suffering and recognizing natural wisdom: both our own and others'. How do we go about it? In the Buddhist tradition and in Contemplative Psychotherapy ...

Meditation has a ton of benefits, and you can do it lots of ways. Many practices focus on sitting still, but you can also meditate while writing. Buster Benson, the founder of 750words, explains how ...

For years off and on I tried to sit on a cushion and meditate on my breath, bringing in light and exhaling darkness for 30 minutes as I’d been taught in a class. I kept trying and failing to keep ...

As my life has gotten busier and busier over the years, my meditation practice has changed. A lot. Once I became a working mom, I found it hard to fit my daily 30-minute sitting meditation practice ...

Mindfulness meditation has its fair share of skeptics. Perhaps some envision it as a kind of New Age-y practice of sitting on a cushion and contemplating their breath while holding an impossible lotus ...

Brendan Leonard has written a weekly column at his website semi-rad.com since February 2011, along with being a regular columnist at Outside. For a while, it seemed like everyone was talking about how ...

The practice of mindfulness meditation is all the rage these days, and for good reason: the proven health benefits of meditation abound — from stress and anxiety reduction to improved creativity and ...

Many of us think of meditation as sitting cross-legged and silent for a long period of time. But you can gain the many important benefits of meditation through your everyday activities—in stillness or ...