Meditation On the Rise in America

Meditation is becoming more popular in America, according to the Daily Iowan.

2007 Census Bureau Survey statistics indicate that about 10 percent of the population over 18 practices some form of meditation, and increase from 8 percent in 2002.

Highlighted in the article are students, who benefit from the relaxing effects of transcendental meditation to help them study.

“I felt like I almost had an advantage over other people because I wasn’t panicking over the test,” said Yosra Elkhalifa, a freshman at the University of Iowa. “I’ve been able to focus better, which is crucial, because I’m taking 17 credit hours.”

Susan Taylor, founder of the National Meditation Specialist Certification Board in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, has seen her practice grow from a class of five in 1996 to a group of 200 certified instructors. The program requires 100 hours of intensive training and meditating.

“Each year, more and more people use meditation for health and healing,” Taylor said.

She also stressed that hers is a secular practice. “I’m not preaching Buddhism or Hinduism.”

Linda Rainforth teaches meditation at a public library in Iowa City, where people aged 6 to 96 join her to learn how to meditate. While she said she wasn’t completely sure why more and more people are becoming interested in meditation, she sees a lot of excitement about its possibilities.

“There is so much stress in the world, and I think that’s just another reason that transcendental meditation has made such a great leap back,” she said.

Source: Third Age

Transcendental Meditation Found To Improve Standardized Academic Achievement

Educators and policymakers are always on the look-out for new techniques to enhance academic acumen.

A new study reports on the potential benefits of a specific kind of meditation called the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique to improve scores among low-performing students.

The study was conducted at a California public middle school with 189 students who were below proficiency level in English and math. Change in academic achievement was evaluated using the California Standards Tests.

“The results of the study provide support to a recent trend in education focusing on student mind/body development for academic achievement,” said Dr. Ronald Zigler, study co-author.

“We need more programs of this kind implemented into our nation’s public schools, with further evaluation efforts.”

Students who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed significant increases in math and English scale scores and performance level scores over a one-year period.

A significant portion of the meditating students – 41 percent – showed a gain of at least one performance level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students in the control group.

Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, “below basic” and “far below basic,” the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a slight gain.

“This initial research, showing the benefits of the Quiet Time/Transcendental Meditation program on academic achievement, holds promise for public education,” according to Sanford Nidich, Ed.D., lead author and professor of education at Maharishi University of Management.

Maharishi University of Management was founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who also founded Transcendental Meditation. Maharishi University promotes “self-exploration, higher consciousness, spirituality, and inner peace through the Transcendental Meditation technique,” according to its website.

“The findings suggest that there is an easy-to-implement, value-added educational program which can help low-performing minority students begin to close the achievement gap,” said Nidich.

The middle school level is of particular concern to educators because of low academic performance nationally. Sixty-six percent of eighth-grade students are below proficiency level in math and 68 percent are below proficiency level in reading, based on 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress data.

Faculty surveyed as part of the project reported the Quiet Time/Transcendental Meditation program to be a valuable addition to the school.

They reported the students to be calmer, happier, and less hyperactive, with an increased ability to focus on schoolwork. In terms of the school environment, faculty reported less student fights, less abusive language, and an overall more relaxed and calm atmosphere since implementation of the program.

Source: Psych Central

Jeanne Ball: Staying Centered During Stressful Times: How Meditation Can Help

Opening The Huffington Post to scenes of political confrontation, revolution, earthquakes and meltdowns, I watch with awe and compassion as our planet heaves and reels with transformation — masses of people demanding reform, while others stagger from the terrifying impact of natural disaster.

Whether it’s one’s own world crashing down or others’ lives falling apart, one feels vulnerable. Can strengthening our connection to the calm, unchanging depths of our being through meditation bring steadiness and resilience in the face of change?

As a meditation teacher, I find that people are often drawn to turning inward during periods of personal crisis, seeking to anchor themselves. It’s not uncommon for someone to come and learn meditation after receiving a devastating medical diagnosis, while going through a divorce, after losing their job or when just feeling overwhelmed by life. Rather than numbing fears and anxieties with alcohol, drugs or something from outside themselves, it’s encouraging that more and more people feel confident that the mind is powerful enough to provide strength and stability from within.

What Happens During Meditation

Our attention is usually absorbed in outer demands — pressures from work, family responsibilities and issues with friends. Meditation can reverse that outer directedness and allow attention to turn inward, not just onto more incessant thinking, but to quieter, subtler, more powerful levels of thought, until the faintest impulse of thought is left behind and the mind is wide awake to itself, not thinking anything, just pure Being.

This is called transcending — the experience of human consciousness in its state of pure potentiality.

There are many venerable forms of meditation, with their own goals, methods, and benefits. As many of my readers know, I happen to teach the Transcendental Meditation technique, which is specifically designed for transcending. This inward settling of the mind happens effortlessly during TM practice because the technique allows the mind to be naturally drawn to levels of increasing charm within — levels of greater peace, energy and intelligence that reside deep within everyone.

A Preparation For Action

This experience of inner wakefulness resets our natural ground state and better prepares us for whatever comes our way. In a recent meditation class, I had a worried mother who complained of insomnia, a businessman with debilitating anxiety and a student struggling with ADHD. Yet even new meditators as these, whose lives were fraught with stress, could sit, close their eyes and transcend to find comfort in their own inner silence — not escaping, but going to a deeper level where pressures of work, unpaid bills and exams don’t intrude. Balance and clarity is regained. Within a few days of learning to transcend, the common experience is that worries are less, and one’s eyes are open a little bit more. With a fresh mind and calm spirit, ideas and insights come easily, and life’s challenges are more manageable.

How The Body Benefits

Stress is the enemy of good health, and the deep rest of the transcendent obliterates stress. Medical researchers have found that TM practice consistently brings down high blood pressure in hypertensive patients.¹ A clinical trial funded by the NIH found a 50 percent reduction in heart attack and stroke among elderly at-risk patients who learned the TM technqiue.²

A distinct style of brain functioning is associated with transcending. Research shows that a state of heightened EEG coherence is produced during TM practice, which overtime improves brain performance and changes how our brain deals with stress.³ Other studies on TM show faster recovery from sleep deprivation and a healthier response of the nervous system to stressful stimuli.⁴

By researching bodily changes during meditation, scientists are identifying the physiology of deep transcendence, as distinct from other mind/body states. A more restful heart rate, slower metabolism, increased skin resistance, stillness of breath, greater reduction of blood lactate and cortisol and widespread alpha coherence all indicate a neurophysiological state not seen during sleep or ordinary eyes-closed relaxation, and also very different from meditation practices like contemplation, concentration or watching your thoughts.⁵

The deeper we go in meditation, the greater is the rest to the body and the more we harness our inner resources.

Meditation In Times Of Tragedy

A trusty meditation technique may be our best tool for remaining cool, calm and collected in the face of change, disappointment or catastrophe. A student in last week’s class said she came to learn meditation because after recently losing her father, she was impressed with how her brother, a long-time meditator, had handled their dad’s passing.

Meditation cultivates self-reliance. It allows us to fall back onto our self to access that most wise, timeless, unbounded field of human awareness that remains hidden or unavailable to us if we neglect it or never go there.

We need to help others in times of tragedy, with food, supplies, medicine — everything. But we can only help others if we have the wherewithal and can react supportively, exercising our highest powers of judgment and acting from the better angels of our nature. As science has confirmed, transcending develops the brain’s executive functions, quickens reaction time and improves moral reasoning — exactly what’s needed in a crisis.

In times of tragedy or when people are struggling to survive, meditation is not a luxury. Transcending attunes you to the deep, underlying evolutionary force that not only strengthens the human survival mechanism, but creates the presence of heart and mind to more gracefully endure hard times and turn them into something better.

Source: Huffington Post

Sleep Meditation: The Solution to Your Sleep Disorder

Adequate sleep is imperative for our mental health and overall well-being. However, getting adequate sleep is a challenge for most of us. We often fail to meet the requirement of quality sleep. And when this process continues for a long time it becomes a serious matter of concern. Relying on sleeping pills can turn out to be dangerous and addictive at the same time. On the other hand, most of us fail to extract the best out of mental exercises and breathing exercises for relaxing our nerves and muscles. Under these circumstances, sleep meditation can prove to be the ultimate solution for our problem. It is the most natural, harmless and effective method for restoring the health of our sleep cycle.

Our sleep cycle can be divided in to two separate stages – Rapid Eye Movement or REM and Non Rapid Eye Movement or NREM. REM sleep is the period when we dream. And NREM is the stage when we lose our conscious awareness. The NREM again can be divided into three different categories. For most of the adults, a minimum of seven to eight hours of sleep is absolutely essential for performing at an optimum level. However, some people can do well with less number of hours due to a unique genetic mutation. Besides our mental and physical health, meditation techniques have proved very beneficial for improving our sleep health as well.

Sleep deprivation for a considerable amount of time can be extremely harmful to our immune system. It can also increase the risks of a high blood pressure along with heart diseases. Researches made on this subject have further revealed that sleep deprivation can also be the cause for obesity and type 2 diabetes. On the other hand, the psychological risk involves the dreaded bi-polar disorder and depression. Falling asleep at our stressful times is the most difficult part of this problematic disorder. Alcohol and pills can provide temporary relief but then they come with their own harmful long-term side effects. Eventually, they interfere with our sleep cycles. It has been seen that nightmares are the main cause of over consumption of alcohol.

Sleep meditation has certainly evolved as the best possible answer to this problem. In the recent times it has become more effective due to the rapid progress in the sphere of audio technology. At the same time, traditional meditation techniques can always be relied upon for relaxing our mind and body. However, all these techniques of meditation are skilful art and require vigorous practice for their perfect execution.

Anyone can benefit from the new discoveries of sleep meditation. Through a state-of-the-art recording process, the scientists have made it possible to tap the proceedings of our brain after we fall asleep. The recording process goes through the Theta and Alpha stage to finally reach the stage of Delta or deep sleep. The discoveries made so far are encouraging for regenerating our immune system and releasing the anti-aging process within the body.

The Best Non-Scientific Benefits of Meditation

Good morning! It is my pleasure to introduce you to meditation practice, or — if you already have a practice — to revisit the foundations with you.

The Practice of Tranquility is more than 2,500 years old and has been practiced by countless people over the millennia. I say this so you can know that what I’m going to teach you is ancient and time-tested. It may or may not be for you, but, in any case, you can trust it. I didn’t make it up.

Our culture keeps uncovering more and more reasons why it is a good idea to meditate. For example, according to studies, it has tremendous health benefits, like decreasing stress (by lowering cortisol), improving focus and memory (by raising the level of gamma waves), and preventing relapse into depression by 50 percent (according to studies by Jon Kabat-Zinn, M.D., and Zindel Segal, Ph.D.).

Western science has done a tremendous job of cataloging so-called “negative mind states” (like depression, anxiety, and so on) and prescribing truly helpful treatments for them. Meditation is fast become one of those treatments. Buddhism, on the other hand, has spent the last 2,500 years cataloging positive mind states, such as wisdom, compassion, generosity and patience. It is truly wonderful to live in a time when these two mighty traditions meet. No matter what perspective you come from, the benefits of meditation are numerous and deep. Here is my list:

(The video clip is from July 24, 2009 at Padma Samye Ling, the Venerable Khenpo Rinpoches taught shamatha, calm abiding, meditation instructions according to Zhigpo Dutsi)

1) Meditation makes you like yourself more, and you stop acting so crazy, terrified and confused.

When you practice meditation, you don’t stop thinking. Thinking just goes on and on, but you take a different attitude to your thoughts, which is simply to allow them to be as they are. As you do so, you get to know yourself in a whole new way. You see how your mind works, and what affects you. You see that the smell of toast makes you indescribably happy, you think way too much about your hairstyle, and that every time the phone rings, you get adrenaline in your stomach. You didn’t know these things about yourself, and, when you stop judging yourself (as meditation teaches), you begin to see yourself as someone rather wonderful — vulnerable, strong, quirky and incredibly well-intentioned. You have become your own best friend — one who happens to like you a lot, no matter what.

Thoughts are always trying to seduce you in one way or another — to get mad about something, crave something, avoid something, to become busier, less busy, and so on. In an untrained state, we always go along for the ride. But when you train your mind through the practice of meditation, you see that no matter how many thoughts arise that tell you to become furious, or desirous, or sleepy or frenzied, they all, eventually, pass. With each moment you wait, you soften.

2) Meditation makes you like your fellow humans more.

The practice of meditation has one particularly odd side effect. I did not anticipate this one, and, as far as I can tell from my fellow practitioners and meditation students, no one else did, either.

As it chips away at your concepts, stories and truths, meditation opens your heart. Why are these two things related? Because when you give up your story about yourself and about life, you are left with things as they are. Since you can’t take refuge in stories, you have no protection. You are basically raw. When you’re open, vulnerable and inquisitive, guess what happens? You feel everything. Your fellow humans cease to be puppets in your wee drama, and instead become actual individuals with joys and sorrows, both of which you can feel. You see that everyone –everyone — is as vulnerable as you are, and is pretending that they are not. So your heart goes out to them, even the ones you think are jerks. You can no longer treat anyone as less than yourself. And what does our world need more than this?

3) Meditation helps you see the magic of this world.

When you have a sense of gentleness toward yourself and the ability to love genuinely, something quite extraordinary happens: You relax. Whether things go well, or poorly, on any particular day, you can deal with it because you know how to remain soft and open. This soft openness is no different from waking up to the present moment.

In the present moment, the natural wisdom, beauty and bliss of your own mind and this world are apparent. Profound wisdom in the form of awareness cuts through your concepts, again and again. The simple act of meditation — of placing awareness on breath and, when it strays, bringing it back — is exactly, precisely, utterly this act of wisdom.

Have you ever wondered where that awareness comes from that says, “Hey, you’re thinking — you’re supposed to be paying attention to your breath”? You’re wandering around in a sea of hope, fear, boredom, excitement, and so on, when, out of nowhere, awareness cuts in to remind you of what you are supposed to be doing.

Where does that come from?

Well, unfortunately, I do not know, but I do know that this is the same place that creative inspiration comes from, and insight and freshness. So don’t be afraid of softness, openness and the groundlessness that can accompany the giving up of concept. Instead, you could learn to fall, again and again, into the space of not knowing, which turns out to be where love, compassion and omniscience reside. In the words of Tibetan meditation master Chogyam Trungpa, “The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is there’s no ground.”

Source: Susan Piver at Huffington Post

Managing Life with Meditation

Melissa Shattuck recently was stranded for three days at the Chicago O’Hare International Airport while on her way back to Sioux Falls from a workshop in Puerto Rico with The Chopra Center.

Instead of becoming overly worried and stressed, Shattuck took the setback in stride. A friend remarked to her how calm Shattuck was during the event.

Shattuck credits her meditation practice for helping her keep anxiety and stress in check. Shattuck, who is co-owner of The Dharma Room, started meditating about four and half years ago after an experience at the The Chopra Center in Carlsbad, Calif.

She started meditating to deal with stress. “This was the most life-changing thing for me in dealing with depression and anxiety,” Shattuck says. She is a certified meditation instructor with The Chopra Center, started by teacher and author Deepak Chopra and David Simon. She also teaches Ayurveda and yoga.

During her regular practice, Shattuck meditates twice a day for 20 to 30 minutes. She notices the effects when she doesn’t meditate.

“I would say there’s so many subtle benefits of meditation. … I noticed out of the blue I would respond to a situation in a different way,” Shattuck says.

A team of researchers led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) found that people who meditated for about 30 minutes a day for eight weeks had measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress. Their findings appeared in the Jan. 30 issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging.

The study’s senior author, Sara Lazar of the MGH Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program, says the study explains why people who meditate feel better, according to the website ScienceDaily.

“Although the practice of meditation is associated with a sense of peacefulness and physical relaxation, practitioners have long claimed that meditation also provides cognitive and psychological benefits that persist throughout the day,” Lazar says.

“This study demonstrates that changes in brain structure may underlie some of these reported improvements and that people are not just feeling better because they are spending time relaxing.”

Meditation can be as simple as just closing your eyes and focusing on your breath. Those who meditate say it helps to calm their mind and to pay attention to what is going on in their body.

More people are looking for ways to cope with stress, says Cena Keller, owner of East Bank Yoga. “I think people are stressed. … They need some sort of outlet that isn’t another device or another outlet.”

The studio currently doesn’t offer a regular meditation class, but Keller says she has been getting more requests for classes.

Veronika Ludewig is teaching a series of meditation classes using a crystal singing bowl at The Dharma Room. When played, the bowls send out sound and vibrations. “It will affect everyone differently. It allows people to tune in to their own body. It literally will resonate where people need it most within their physical self,” Ludewig says.

Ludewig combines breathing meditations and color meditations, which is a visualization technique, in the class.

The Butterfly Rainbow Center has hosted a monthly workshop with Buddhist monks for the past five months. The monks discuss Buddhist principles and give guidance on how to meditate.

Co-owner Randy Smith says 20 to 30 people have attended each session. “We get requests (for meditation) on a fairly regular basis. The interest is growing, I would say,” Smith says.

Source: Argus Leader

Meditation Leads to Stronger Mind-Body Connection Than Dancing

Study finds practitioners of Vipassana or mindfulness meditation to have a stronger mind-body connection than do ballet and modern dancers

The body is a dancer’s instrument, but is it attuned to the mind? A new study from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests that professional ballet and modern dancers are not as emotionally in sync with their bodies as are people who regularly practice meditation.

UC Berkeley researchers tracked how closely the emotions of seasoned meditators and professional dancers followed bodily changes such as breathing and heart rates.

They found that dancers who devote enormous time and effort to developing awareness of and precise control over their muscles – a theme coincidentally raised in the new ballet movie “Black Swan” – do not have a stronger mind-body connection than do most other people.

By contrast, veteran practitioners of Vipassana or mindfulness meditation – a technique focused on observing breathing, heartbeat, thoughts and feelings without judgment – showed the closest mind-body bond, according to the study recently published in the journal Emotion.

“We all talk about our emotions as if they are intimately connected to our bodies – such as the ‘heartache of sadness’ and ‘bursting a blood vessel’ in anger,” said Robert Levenson, a UC Berkeley psychology professor and senior author of the study. “We sought to precisely measure how close that connection was, and found it was stronger for meditators.”

The results offer new clues in the mystery of the mind-body connection. Previous studies have linked the dissociation of mind and body to various medical and psychiatric diseases.

“Ever have the experience of getting home from work and realizing you have a blistering headache?” said Jocelyn Sze, a doctoral student in clinical science at UC Berkeley and the lead author of the study. “The headache probably built up throughout the day, but you might have been intentionally ignoring it and convincing yourself that you felt fine so that you could get through the demands of the day.”

Increasingly, mindfulness meditation is being used to treat physical and psychological problems, researchers point out. “We believe that some of these health benefits derive from meditation’s capacity to increase the association between mind and body in emotion,” Levenson said.

For the experiment, the researchers recruited volunteers from meditation and dance centers around the San Francisco Bay Area and via Craigslist. The study sample consisted of 21 dancers with at least two years of training in modern dance or ballet and 21 seasoned meditators with at least two years of Vipassana practice. A third “control group” was made up of 21 moderately active adults with no training in dance, meditation, Pilates or professional sports.

Participants, who ranged in age from 18 to 40, were wired with electrodes to measure their bodily responses while they watched emotionally charged scenes from movies and used a rating dial to indicate how they were feeling.

Although all participants reported similar emotional reactions to the film clips, meditators showed stronger correlations between the emotions they reported feeling and the speed of their heartbeats. Surprisingly, the differences between dancers and the control group were minimal.

Researchers theorize that dancers learn to shift focus between time, music, space, and muscles and achieve heightened awareness of their muscle tone, body alignment and posture.

“These are all very helpful for becoming a better dancer, but they do not tighten the links between mind and body in emotion,” Levenson said.

By contrast, meditators practice attending to “visceral” body sensations, which makes them more attuned to internal organs such as the heart. “These types of visceral sensations are a primary focus of Vipassana meditation, which is typically done sitting still and paying attention to internal sensations,” Sze said.

The study was published in the December 2010 issue of Emotion.

Source: The Medical News

Meditating for Better Health

In recent years, scientists and doctors have discovered that there are many health benefits to meditation. Reductions in blood pressure, heart rate and cholesterol levels were observed in numerous studies, while some even recorded an increase in verbal creativity and reduced visual reaction time.

Dr Patricia Bloom, associate professor of geriatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, shared these findings at a recent talk she gave in Singapore at the invitation of the Tsao Foundation, while emphasising that more rigorous studies are needed. Her talk, “Meditation as Medicine”, gave insight into how meditation can be a drug-free way of reducing the harmful effects of stress on the body.

Dr Bloom explained that chronic stress has the potential to produce illness. It can worsen or even cause cardiovascular, metabolic, gastrointestinal diseases. It can inhibit a person’s immune system and make him more prone to infectious illnesses.

However, it has been shown that meditation can elicit the body’s own relaxation response which helps the body recuperate from stress. Not only that, activating the relaxation response helps the body to be less reactive to stress. In order words, one becomes more resilient.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a form of meditation that was developed by Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in the late 1970s. Dr Bloom, who practises and teaches MBSR herself, described it as “the deliberate cultivation of specific qualities of attention and awareness”.

“Once we’re more aware of what goes on in our mind, we can choose to respond in different ways than we might have if we weren’t aware,” she told AsiaOne Health. “We are less on automatic pilot, and we perceive more choices.”

MBSR is a way of dealing with stressful situations that “promotes response rather than reaction”. Explained Dr Bloom: “Reacting is what happens when you don’t have control over the situation. It is like being on ‘autopilot’, being ‘un-conscious’.

“Creating more awareness or mindfulness allows us to go in a different direction. So instead of an automatic reaction, we have a choice that we make. We choose how to respond.”

Meditation, in the form of MBRS, therefore does not mean a relinquishing of one’s conscious mind. Instead, it means being more, not less, conscious.

Ultimately, mindfulness boils down to two elements – awareness and attention. Find opportunities to stop, breathe and focus, said Dr Bloom.

Looks like the old injunction to “stop and smell the roses” really does have a point to it!

Dr Patricia Bloom is an Associate Professor of Geriatrics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Director of Integrative Health for the Martha Stewart Center for Living/ Coffey Geriatrics Practice at the Mount Sinai Medical Center. Her talk, “Meditation as Medicine: What Neuroscience Has To Teach Us About Health And Happiness”, was organised by the Tsao Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for older people.

For those who are interested in meditation but don’t know where to begin, here are some suggestions:

• Read books on meditation to find out more. For books on MBSR specifically, look up titles by Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn.
• Try the Relaxation Response. It is an exercise developed by Dr Herbert Benson that is widely used by doctors and counsellors to help their patients relax. Information on this is readily available online.
• Get CDs that guide you through meditation sessions
• A simple way to start is to be aware of your breathing and focus your attention on it for several minutes.
• If you have misgivings about meditation due to religious reasons, approach your religious leader for advice. Most major religions have their own meditative practices – you may wish to begin from there.

Source: Amy Yeong at Asiaone Health

Change Your Brain Through Mindfulness Meditation

On Monday, I wrote an article for the Globe’s g Health section detailing the many ways that cultivating mindfulness can make you happier and improve your health. That’s the practice of being fully engaged in the moment — whether you’re washing dishes or staring at the traffic light in front of you — rather than allowing your mind to wander.

I discussed a recent Massachusetts General Hospital study, which found that taking an 8-week class in mindfulness mediation could actually lead to changes in the brain. I also mentioned a Harvard study published in the journal Science that discovered that we’re most unhappy when our minds are distracted and not focused on the task at hand.

I received a slew of positive e-mails and comments on this piece, with many of you asking me to provide links to the studies — which I did above — and more information on where to take a mindfulness class.

Here are links to institutions in the Boston area that offer mindfulness training that were mentioned in the article.

Boston Medical Center Nutrition and Weight Management Class

Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

University of Massachusetts Mindfulness Training Program

Massachusetts General Hospital Relaxation Response Resiliency Program

And watch the video to take a virtual meditation class with renowned mindfulness practitioner Jon Kabat-Zinn, founding director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Source: boston.com