Professor Andra Smith, from the School of Psychology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, has combined her research and her personal experience with mindfulness to teach the course Neuroscience of ...

Meditation has become an increasingly popular topic in popular media, with many TV shows, movies, and books featuring characters who practice meditation. In recent years, there has been a growing ...

New research shows how combining mindfulness with exercise boosts people's mental health and well-being and could help change exercise habits. For people looking to start 2024 with a new routine to ...

If you’re anxious about work, finances, the state of the world, or anything else, you might try a moment of mindfulness. Paying close attention to the present moment without judgment — the basic idea ...

When you think of mindfulness, do you dismiss it as a trend? It’s true that mindfulness is trendy, but it also has deep, traditional roots that are backed by modern research in the fields of ...

According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine PubMed database, there are now over 22,000 peer-reviewed articles on mindfulness; about half of these were published just in the last five years. The ...

Have you ever noticed how repeating a phrase or humming a tune calms your nerves during stress? That’s the power of sound—and it’s exactly why mantra chanting has stood the test of time. For thousands ...

Mindfulness courses can reduce anxiety, depression and stress and increase mental wellbeing within most but not all non-clinical settings, say a team of researchers. They also found that mindfulness ...

You don’t need to sit still on a pillow to get many of the benefits of mindfulness, science shows. After being harassed for years by mindfulness’s many boosters, Grant finally took to The New York ...

Exactly seven years ago today, the cover story of Time was called “The Mindful Revolution.” The article outlined the explosion of mindfulness into popular culture, paying particular attention to its ...