Meditation is much more than just focussing your attention on how you breathe. If done in the right way, it can be a great ...

Like many others, I can find it difficult to get to sleep. Often my mind is busy running through the day's events or worrying about tomorrow's to-do list, and sleep feels frustratingly out of reach.

When we stay busy during the day, it’s often only at night, when we’re trying to sleep, that these worries come to the front of our minds. The yoga and meditation teacher, nutritionist and ...

wp:paragraph --> Stress is a modern mental bogeyman, keeping nearly half of Americans up at night, according to ... not just sitting cross-legged in meditation—to help ease stress and anxiety.

In that tradition there’s a phase of meditation called the “arising and passing away”, after which you get the “dark night” - and for some, the dark night is very dark. “For an ...