If you've been hoping to practice mindfulness more regularly, you’re not alone: in recent years, meditation has become increasingly popular in the US. There are many different variations, all of which ...

Love is one of the most diverse emotions, and it can be experienced in countless ways. fizkes/iStock via Getty Images Plus Most people love love, but not everyone loves Valentine’s Day. When it was ...

The benefits of mindfulness meditation are well-known, but one type of mindfulness meditation, loving-kindness meditation, works particularly well when it comes to sharpening your capacity for ...

Depression is more than just feeling sad. It disrupts some of your cognitive processes. One such cognitive process is the retrieval of auto-biographical memories or memories from your personal life ...

Practicing meditation can help you focus and feel more connected to the present moment. In doing so, you can also benefit your health by lowering stress, achieving higher self-awareness, and improving ...

Renowned meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg offers her tips for beginners. — -- Sharon Salzberg, a towering figure in the meditation world, is part of a small group of people who helped bring ...

Dacher guides us in a meditation that has been practiced over thousands of years. Together, we will mentally extend goodwill, kindness, and warmth towards others and ourselves, in a series of mantras.

Loving-kindness meditation (also sometimes called Metta meditation) is a type of Buddhist meditation that can help you cultivate unconditional kind attitudes toward yourself and others. It involves ...

The loving kindness helps me develop compassion – for myself and for others. Here are materials from Fordham University that share this simple practice with you. You can begin by sitting or lying down ...

(The Conversation) — If you’re feeling disconnected from others, or just disenchanted with the day, you might consider trying loving-kindness meditation, writes a scholar of mindfulness. (The ...