How to meditate: Meditation in the news

Conscious Meditation: Find your passion - New York DailyNews - May 4, 2010
Meditation and how to learn it: this is a really usefull article for those who want to start their first meditation themselves with simple techniques. Read More.



Meditation: Even a Little Helps - ABC News - April 29, 2010
Article explains how, even practiced a few minutes every day, meditation can help you in your daily lives. The article also refers to scientific evidences and studies on  meditation. Read More.


Simple advices on how to meditate - myhsj.org - March 24, 2010
This post on the myhsj.org blog gives a few advices on how to meditate in a few simple steps. Meditation is more that just those few tips but those are very good first steps. Read More.


How meditation can reduce pain - The Independant (UK) - March 19, 2010
Based on a study made by the Journal of Pain, this article explains how the practice of meditation can help reducing pain and anxiety and gives a few simple tips. Read more.


Buddhism at the Paris Opera Ballet - AFP - March 18, 2010
The story of Siddharta - who will later be called the Buddha - is presented in a Ballet at Paris Opera Bastille from March 18 to April 11. Don't miss it. Read More.



Buthan's "Gross National Happiness" indicator - Beliefnet.news - March 15, 2010
The Buddhist kingdom of Buthan considers the happiness of its people as the #1 goal for the country, well before GDP or any other material consideration. The National Happiness is measured twice a year based on 9 indicators: psychological well-being, ecology, health, education, culture, living standards, time use, community vitality and good governance. The governement promotes a program to constantly improve those indicators: Psychological well-being, for example, includes measures of meditation, prayer, nonviolence, and reincarnation. The country's GNH secretary, Karma Tshiteem, said Buddhism is key to people's happiness. Read more.



The Anti-Aging Effects of Meditation - More February 14, 2010
Can a daily dose of meditation keep your brain working — and feeling — better? It's so unfair: Just at the age when you start figuring things out -- who you are, what you want out of life -- you begin noticing that you're losing your mind. Already, at 44, I not only forget where I left my keys, I get in the car and have no idea where I'm going. I'm worried that what's left of my poor brain is starting to petrify. Finally sure of my priorities and values, I'm cross with others who don't see things my way. I'm anxious about getting older, and impatient with my little aches and pains. When I look in the mirror, I see not just superficial wrinkles, but something deeper and more troublesome -- the nascent beginnings of a forgetful, cranky, inflexible old bat. Read it



Three reasons why mindfulness meditation helps relationships - Psychology Today - January 27, 2010
In my work as a psychologist, I see a lot of very bright, insightful people who still struggle with relationships, and when I suggest that they start practicing mindfulness meditation , they want to know why and how sitting and meditating can help their love lives. They may know that they "should" meditate because it's good for them, but how is it going to make things better between them and their [fill in the blank: Wife/Husband/Boyfriend/Girlfriend/Partner...]? Read it.



Mayo Clinic launches mobile app company, meditation app. - Medcity News - January 5, 2010
ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA– Mayo Clinic is partnering with DoApps Inc. to form a new company that will develop and sell smart phone apps based on Mayo research.
Last week, mRemedy launched its first app called Mayo Clinic Meditation for Apple's iPhone and iTouch, a program created by Dr. Amit Sood, a Mayo professor, to teach people breathing and relaxation techniques. The company has already sold 200 apps, each priced at $4.99 on iTunes. Read it.

Thinking Happy Thoughts at Work - Wall Street Journal - January 27, 2010
Like many workers, Ivelisse Rivera, a physician at Community Health Center, Middletown, Conn., feels stressed-out by mounting workloads. And she didn't expect to get much help during her employer's annual staff meeting last November—just the usual speeches on medical issues. Read it.

Meditation on prescription: charity urges new remedy for depression - 'Mindfulness' courses should be available on NHS, says Mental Health Foundation - The Guardian 1/05/10
Meditation techniques should be widely available on prescription, say experts today, pointing to evidence that emptying the mind is more likely to help people out of the cycle of recurrent depression than pills. Meditation may for some evoke images of Buddhist chanting and the Beatles bedecked with flowers in their period of devotion to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, but today a mental health charity is launching a campaign to make "mindfulness" courses based on meditation available widely on the NHS. Read it.