Tag: meditation
Meditation Prevents Brain Thinning Caused by Aging
Most people are aware that meditation possesses an array of health benefits to both the body and mind. New and often surprising findings are...
Stilling Your Mind Can Also Reduce Heart-related Diseases
Are you ever thinking so hard, juggling so many mental balls, that you wonder how your internal communication system keeps from exploding? We live...
Meditation Over Medication? Why It May Be Better For Mental Health
Recently, the Washington Post reported on a new approach to addressing the several hundred thousand military members that suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)....
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...
