Soothe Back-to-School Anxiety, Teach Kids to Relax

        SUNDAY, Aug. 23 (HealthDay News) — Children who are nervous about the new school year can relax by practicing “mindfulness” during anxious moments, researchers say. Experts at Duke University, in Durham, N.C., recommend mindfulness, which is a technique borrowed from meditation, to help children transition into the new school year and [...]

Meditation Fit for a Marine

New experiments with the military affirm the benefits of mindfulness. by Vanessa Gregory This article originally appeared in the November 2010 issue of Men’s Journal Two summers ago at the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Virginia, a group of reservists prepared for a tour of duty in Iraq. Twelve-hour days were jammed with rifle qualifications, [...]

Meditation May Help Women Cope With Hot Flashes!

Mindfulness training reduces bother, not intensity, of menopause symptoms   FRIDAY, June 3 (HealthDay News) — An easy-to-learn meditation technique can help ease the hot flashes, night sweats and insomnia of menopause, a new study says. The University of Massachusetts research showed that mindfulness training, based on a Buddhist meditation concept, reduced the distress associated [...]

Brains of Buddhist monks scanned in meditation study

By Matt Danzico BBC News, New York The study peers into brains of monks. In a laboratory tucked away off a noisy New York City street, a soft-spoken neuroscientist has been placing Tibetan Buddhist monks into a car-sized brain scanner to better understand the ancient practice of meditation.

Why do we sleep? Who knows? Who cares?

Why do we sleep? Nobody knows! There are many theories, ideas, traditions and explanations. Medicine and Science describe the function of sleep, but not the reason why we sleep, as having to do with resting the body and muscles that we used through out the day. Or there are theories about memory consolidation, addressing psychological [...]

January 3rd is Festival of Sleep Day!

Origin of Festival of Sleep Day (appeared first in Associated Content from yahoo): January 3rd is Festival of Sleep Day. This obscure holiday is becoming better known with each passing year. Little is known of its origins or when it was first celebrated. It’s assumed that this unofficial Holiday was created for people seeking rest and relaxation [...]

Duke University Study finds Mindfulness is helpful for Insomnia

MBSR Training Improves Sleep Quality & Lessens Need for Sleep Medicines This article appeares first at DukeHealth.org June 25, 2009  By Duke Medicine News and Communications   Stressed-out people sleep better and take sleep medication less often when they learn to let go of intrusive thoughts, according to researchers at Duke Integrative Medicine. Their data shows [...]

The Ceaseless Society

This post first appeared on SOF Observed, the blog site for Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippet: religion, meaning, ethics Shiraz Janjua, Associate Producer I’m not going to lie. I’m really enjoying Jon Kabat-Zinn. His Google talk introduced me to some very simple techniques that I’ve been using lately to help me fall asleep faster. [...]

Trouble Sleeping? Just Breathe

by LIVESTRONG.COM, on Mon Aug 24, 2009 4:27pm PDT     By Brad Kearns If your mind is racing and you are having difficulty falling asleep, a few minutes of simple but effective breathing exercises can help calm your nervous system on a chemical level and lead to greater success in hitting the sack. The awareness and [...]

Baby boomers awakening to symptoms, risks of sleep apnea

This article first appeared March 8, 2010 in Palm Beach Post Health By Stacey Singer Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Dr. Jeff Davis at his home in Tequesta. Dr. Jeff Davis had all the symptoms — daytime sleepiness, depression, snoring — but it took another physician friend to make the diagnosis. He had obstructive sleep [...]

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