A popular New Year's resolution is to take up meditation—specifically mindfulness meditation. This is a healthy choice.

The world moves fast, and sometimes that means you do, too. While you're working your way through to-do lists and absorbing information coming from multiple directions, finding the time to be ...

Growing up in India in a non-religious household, I assumed that everyone did yoga and meditation every morning. My dad would do his yoga and prānāyāma (yogic breath work) followed by a few minutes of ...

Malas — also known as yoga beads or japamalas — are necklaces that usually have 108 beads. Mala, Sanskrit for “garland,” is often used to enhance spiritual practice. You may see people use malas while ...

As I get older, I notice that my peers and I are starting to lose some of the abilities we once took for granted. Aging brings unwelcome changes in our physical fitness, joint health, cognition, and ...

Meditation and mindfulness may help people to be more aware of their eating behaviors and motivations. Some research suggests that adding meditation to a weight loss strategy may be more effective ...

March Mindfulness is Mashable's series that examines the intersection of meditation practice and technology. Because even in the time of coronavirus, March doesn't have to be madness. I can't remember ...

Recently, an acquaintance of mine got into mindfulness meditation and is now spreading the gospel that meditating every day has not only made her happier and more productive, it’s even helped her heal ...

Mindfulness meditation can help us lead happier, healthier lives . . . at least according to science. Yet many of us still balk at the idea of practicing it ourselves. Perhaps we fear that meditation ...