New research has found that a 30-minute introduction to mindfulness can significantly reduce negative emotions and ease physical pain — even for those who have never practiced the technique before.

Dr. Blayne Harcey is Dickinson’s newest Religious Studies professor. Harcey received his PhD from Arizona State University in 2024, focusing on Buddhist pilgrimage practices and ritual. During the ...

What is meditation? For thousands of years, human beings have practiced refined techniques of mental focusing, designed to change the habitual conditioning of the mind. Central to many spiritual and ...

BRATTLEBORO -- An "Introduction to Insight Meditation" is set for Sunday, Feb. 22, at the Vermont Insight Meditation Center. Jack Millett, a meditation student for two decades, will explain correct ...

Goldie Hawn has always been known for the positive energy she radiates, and she’s just as joyful off the screen as she is on it. The Private Benjamin and Overboard star attributes much of her joie de ...

Do you control your mind, or does your mind control you? Investigate how the mind operates and the condition of "mindlessness"—the pervasive swirl of thoughts and judgments that separate you from the ...

Mental health has received greater emphasis this lockdown year — isolation, loss of jobs and businesses, the effect on churches and schools and the simple irrationality of the rules can be wearing. It ...

BRATTLEBORO -- Vermont Insight Meditation Center announces an "Introduction to Insight Meditation" course offered for the first time in the summer. This introductory course is designed for those who ...

You will never be a perfect meditator. Not the first time or the 100th time. Release any expectations of yourself and feel free to be terrible at it. “It’s like exercising. You start slow, with small ...

Let’s face it: we all could use a bit more self-care. Social consciousness of mental health and chronic anxiety is at an all-time high. We all have our own worries, stressors and unhealthy behaviors ...