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Workplace Yoga And Meditation Can Lower Feelings Of Stress
August 4, 2009 Twenty minutes per day of guided workplace meditation and yoga combined with six weekly group sessions can lower feelings of stress by more than 10 percent and improve sleep quality in sedentary ... > full story -
New Links Between Lucid Dreaming And Psychosis Could Revive Dream Therapy In Psychiatry
July 28, 2009 Similarities in brain activity during lucid dreaming and psychosis suggest that the previously discredited technique of dream therapy may be useful in psychiatric treatment, according to a European ... > full story -
The Healing Power Of Prayer?
June 17, 2009 Health and religion have always been intertwined, most obviously through prayer on behalf of the sick. Does intercessory prayer for sick people actually help heal them? For thousands of years some ... > full story -
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Meditation May Be An Effective Treatment For Insomnia
June 9, 2009 Meditation may be an effective behavioral intervention in the treatment of insomnia, according to new ... > full story -
Buddhist Deity Meditation Temporarily Augments Visuospatial Abilities, Study Suggests
April 27, 2009 The results showed that following the meditation period, practitioners of the DY style of meditation showed a dramatic improvement on both the mental rotation task and the visual memory task compared ... > full story -
Meditation Provides Hope For People With Depression
April 23, 2009 People with severe and recurrent depression could benefit from a new form of therapy that combines ancient forms of meditation with modern cognitive behavior therapy, early-stage research by ... > full story -
Link Between Religious Coping And Aggressive Treatment In Terminally Ill Cancer Patients
March 17, 2009 In a new study of terminally ill cancer patients, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute found that those who draw on religion to cope with their illness are more likely to receive intensive, ... > full story -
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Researchers Discover Ways Of Integrating Treatment Of Traumatized Tibetan Refugee Monks
March 13, 2009 Researchers have recently treated many of the large number of Tibetan refugee monks who fled violent religious persecution. These individuals arrived in Boston suffering from symptoms of traumatic ... > full story -
Brain Differences Found Between Believers In God And Non-Believers
March 4, 2009 Believing in God can help block anxiety and minimize stress, according to new research that shows distinct brain differences between believers and ... > full story -
Do Experiences Or Material Goods Make Us Happier?
February 23, 2009 Should I spend money on a vacation or a new computer? Will an experience or an object make me happier? A new study says it depends on different factors, including how materialistic you ... > full story
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