Tag: meditation
The Unholy Triad: Stress, Depression and Heart Disease
Loyola University Medical Center reports that there is a strong relationship between heart disease and depression. While having heart disease can definitely make one...
Meditation Improves Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Patients
Meditation has been hailed since ancient times as a key practice to support physical and psychological health and balance. For cancer patients, the benefits...
Stress Erodes Every Strand of DNA in Your Body
The latest, must-know news about your heart: Feeling stressed-out too often raises your risk for deadly ticker trouble by a whopping 27 percent. That...
Meditation Can Help Our Mental Illness Problem
These days, the world moves very quickly and it is easy to get caught up in the tornado of living. The cycles of depression...
Avoid These 3 Sources of Anxiety and Inflammation
"Mad Men's" Don Draper (Jon Hamm) reaches for his Lucky Strikes to soothe frayed nerves (bad choice); Jack Ford (Timothy Hutton in "Leverage") drinks...
Meditators 47% Less Likely to Die From Stroke or Heart Attack
Researchers studying the health benefits of meditation are finding astonishing results. A study done at the Medical College of Wisconsin has shown that regular...
Depression Associated with Cognitive Decline and Dementia
In a study published in the Archives of Neurology, researchers discovered that a history of depression in older individuals is associated with increased risk for...
What Meditation Can Teach Us About the Flow of Life
Imagine that you were floating along a river and suddenly stood up; you’d most likely find yourself fighting the natural flow of water and...
Mindful Eating: An Enjoyable and Meditative Way to Burn Fat
According to Harvard Medical School, eating while preoccupied with other activities can contribute to an increase in weight gain. However, paying attention and actually...
Altruism, Empathy and Compassion Translate Into Better Health
In an unusual program, the University of California Berkeley is expanding the research it conducts on the health benefits of altruism, compassion and empathy....
