by Jeff Local Search | Jul 20, 2018 | Lifestyle
After 18 days of being trapped in a cave in Thailand, the 12-boy soccer team and their coach have been rescued. How did they survive? Stanford expert Leah Weiss explains that meditation was crucial in keeping the boys alive. With insufficient air and a shortage of...
by Jeff Local Search | Jul 5, 2018 | Lifestyle
As of 2015, Americans saw a drastic increase in major depressive disorder. Prescribed with talk therapy and antidepressant medications, clinically depressed patients were only seeing sporadic improvements. Benjamin Shapero and Gaëlle Desbordes decided to study...
by Jeff Local Search | Jun 13, 2018 | Lifestyle
In a study that explored the social effects of meditation, researchers discovered that meditation teaches people to better regulate their emotions. When people regulate their emotions well, they are more likely to empathize with and respond to a person in need. Find...
by Jeff Local Search | May 16, 2018 | Lifestyle, Stress Management
After pouring through more than 6,000 academic studies on meditation, psychologist and author Daniel Goleman discovered the benefits of meditation. Through his research, Goleman realized that focusing your mind can make you more compassionate and can ease depression....
by Jeff Local Search | Apr 13, 2018 | Lifestyle
After interviewing 140 highly successful professionals, Tim Ferriss discovered that 90% of them all had one unifying habit – meditation. Many people view meditation as a hippie-like ritual; however, it’s really a practice that increases an individual’s focus,...
by Jeff Local Search | Mar 17, 2018 | Lifestyle
Though we often recognize our need to maintain our physical health, we don’t realize that we cannot be physically healthy unless we are mentally healthy. Functional Medicine Practitioner William Cole, D.C. prescribes meditation to all of his clients due to the...
by Jeff Local Search | Feb 7, 2018 | Lifestyle
Many individuals begin meditating as a way of coping with stress in their personal lives; however, several don’t know that meditation can positively affect their professional lives. As it turns out, there are many business owners, such as Founder of Bridgewater...
by Jeff Local Search | Jan 23, 2018 | Neuroscience
Research compiled by the Max Planck Institute of Human Cognitive and Brain Studies shows that different types of meditation can lead to growth in certain regions of the brain. This study explores three types of meditation – mindfulness meditation, loving...
by Jeff Local Search | Oct 30, 2017 | Lifestyle
Meditation does wonders for your own life experience. It can make food taste better, it can help you perform better under the pressure of competition, it can open up creative pathways in your brain you didn’t know you had, and the list goes on from there. It’s no...
by Jeff Local Search | Oct 24, 2017 | Lifestyle
Our attention spans aren’t what they used to be. Technology and social media have literally re-wired our brains and made it more difficult to focus on any given task. We also have more entertainment options than ever before, which can play tricks on our dopamine...
by Jeff Local Search | Oct 17, 2017 | Lifestyle
Attentiveness is not limited to just one sense. You can probably remember a time, maybe all the way back in elementary school days, when you were told to “pay attention,” so you consciously perked up your ears or fixed your gaze on whatever it was you needed to focus...
by Jeff Local Search | Oct 11, 2017 | Lifestyle
Our perceptions of the world are clouded by bias. Whether conscious or (more likely) subconscious, we make associations with each moment, person and location we interact with on a daily basis. A bad memory here, an unfounded assumption there, and we can often stress...
