Focus
The Benefits of Being Mindful Outdoors
While most of us are likely to meditate indoors, a review of scientific research indicates that the mental and physical benefits of practicing mindfulness in nature may be considerable.
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Anxiety
How Mindfulness Helps You Cope with Stress
A new study finds that being mindful can affect not only how you feel about the stressors of your life, but how you actively cope with them.
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Calm
Mindfulness Fights Inflammation in Stressed Adults
New research shows that reducing stress through mindfulness may make your body more resilient to inflammation.
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Calm
New Research on Mindfulness and Meditation: Winter 2020
New research explores the role of mindfulness in emotion processing, biological stress, elementary school classrooms, and more.
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Anxiety
One Week of Mindfulness Meditation May Help You Process Your Emotions
New research finds that just one week of mindfulness practice may improve our emotional memory and boost resilience to difficult emotions.
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Anxiety
Preventing Stress-Related Mental Decline in Soldiers
Making mindfulness training accessible to active-duty soldiers can reduce the harmful impacts of stress on their brains, according to a new study.
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Anxiety
How the Body Scan Meditation Practice Reduces Biological Stress
A daily 20-minute body scan practice may reduce your mental and physical stress levels, according to new research.
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Kids
Mindfulness at School Improves Critical Learning Skills
New research shows that classroom-based mindfulness programs can aid the development of executive function abilities in young children, while also helping them cope better with stress.
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Anxiety
Could Mindfulness Decrease the Severity of Opioid Cravings?
Mindfulness may ease symptoms and enhance recovery for people with opioid use disorder and chronic pain.
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Anxiety
Mindfulness May Reduce Stress for Students of Color
New research explores the role of compassion-based meditation in boosting the mental health of students who experience racism.
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