A mere three years after completing her residency training in 2011, surgeon Carla Haack found herself in the throes of job burnout. She had been devoting her life to the hospital, working 14-hour days ...

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Extensive research has explored our role as active agents in our own flourishing. In 2020, Cortland Dahl and colleagues from UW-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds introduced a multi-disciplinary, ...

Andy Lee has an interesting job title: He is his company's "chief mindfulness officer," and he is not employed at some voguish Silicon Valley startup or by a chain of organic-food co-ops. He works for ...

Data from a new study suggests that individuals who engage in compassion meditation may benefit by reductions in inflammatory and behavioral responses to stress that have been linked to depression and ...

Focused breathing is one of the simplest meditation techniques. It involves concentrating on your breath as it flows in and out of your body. This technique helps calm the mind by anchoring attention ...

The Buddha advised his followers not to waste time speculating about four frequently discussed topics. Mind is one. He said it is like a man who has been wounded with an arrow seeking to find who shot ...

Background: He grew up in a Unitarian Universalist household in Newark, Del., and studied electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a graduate ...

For the record:9:32 a.m. June 2, 2023: A previous version of the story stated that Hsi Lai Temple opened in 1989. It opened in 1988. When we think of meditation, we often picture someone sitting as ...