In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center pitted mindfulness meditation against a common antidepressant in a clinical trial targeting patients with anxiety ...

People have used meditation to soothe anxious thoughts for thousands of years, and research shows it’s a promising treatment for those with anxiety. Roughly 19% of U.S. adults live with an anxiety ...

Meditation has become an increasingly popular topic in popular media, with many TV shows, movies, and books featuring characters who practice meditation. In recent years, there has been a growing ...

You can easily turn the outdoors into your own meditation studio by simply focusing on aspects of nature and mindful movement ...

A guided mindfulness-based stress reduction program was as effective as use of the gold-standard drug — the antidepressant escitalopram (sold under the brand names Lexipro and Cipralex, among others) ...

As part of its Heal at Home series, CURE® collaborated with a clinical health psychologist at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center to provide cancer survivors an easy-to-understand guide to start ...

If you struggle with anxiety, you may know that exercise and mindfulness meditation can help. These habits are gaining traction as tools to improve overall well-being, in part because of a growing ...

A mindfulness meditation course may be as effective at reducing anxiety as a common medication, according to a new study. The research, published on November 9 in JAMA Psychiatry, involved a group of ...

Anxiety is the most common psychiatric disorder, with over 301 million people affected around the world. Whether extreme anxiety arises in social situations, is triggered by a particular phobia, or ...

The mindfulness style of meditation relaxes attention, leading to a more open, spacious sort of awareness. While many programs and authors are currently using the term mindfulness as an umbrella to ...

Discover how to become present in the moment by moving the body while focusing the mind. The mind is quick-moving and elusive. Quieting the mind can be challenging as catching the wind in a net. To ...

Exercise used to be pretty straightforward – you showed up, sweated a lot, and hoped your body would look better afterward. But somewhere along the way, people discovered that movement could be so ...