Medical staff at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, have long been believers in meditation as a powerful integrative wellness method. However, many of the staff’s issues with the use of ...

Could om take the edge off of ouch? A new study suggests that mindfulness meditation is an effective strategy for pain relief. The research, published in Biological Psychiatry, analyzed pain ...

New wellness platform combines yoga videos, breathwork techniques, and guided meditation with fitness tracking to ...

New research has found that mindfulness meditation reduces pain by engaging a distinct brain pathway, separate from the pathway activated by a placebo. The standalone analgesic effect that mindfulness ...

These brain scans show different neural signatures associated with pain response: the NAPS (left) is associated with the emotional experience of pain, the SIIPS-1 (center) is related to our ...

Back in 1979, a biologist at the University of Massachusetts named Jon Kabat-Zinn had an idea. He was trained in the Vipassana tradition of Buddhist meditation, and he had a hunch that if he ...

Sometimes it comes on softly, a dull ache that hums deep within your knees, hips, back or ankles. Other times it attacks the joints of your hands in sharp, quick jabs like a hornet or coils around the ...

This year has been so full of stress and anxiety for just about all of us. Concerns about our health, uncertainty about the future, and the feeling of isolation have made so many of us worse for the ...

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.

In the age of exponential technological growth, the fusion of mindfulness and technology may be an interesting reality. The multidimensional nature of pain, encompassing sensory, cognitive, and ...

Meditation is a known painkiller, easing people's pain perception even after brief sessions. Now a study reveals why: Meditation changes the way the brain processes pain signals. In a study presented ...