Meditation can help improve symptoms in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), an international psychiatry conference heard this week. The Australian study in 48 children diagnosed with ADHD found Sahaja yoga meditation led to an average 35% reduction in [...]
"Previous research suggests that the experience of joy and happiness may slow down the effects of aging by fortifying health-enhancing behaviors such as restorative sleep," via Good night's sleep linked to happiness.
B: It is said that Aikido is quite different from Karate and Judo. O Sensei: In my opinion, it can be said to be the true martial art. The reason for this is that it is a martial art based [...]
In the side-by-side images above, the photo on the left shows a city as seen by astronauts on the International Space Station, and then photo on the right shows a photo of a neuron imaged with fluorescence microscopy. One is [...]
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God. One hour’s meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of prayer. —Mohammed
Based on the ancient definition of meditation - "a meditator sits and like a log he does not think" - researchers surveyed 343 long-term Sahaja yoga meditation practitioners and compared their results to the general population. “We found that the [...]
“You will at once feel your senses gather themselves together; they seem like bees which return to the hive and there shut themselves up to work without effort or care on your part. God thus rewards the violence, which your soul has been doing to itself; and [...]
Sam Parnia practices resuscitation medicine. In other words, he helps bring people back from the dead — and some return with stories. Their tales could help save lives, and even challenge traditional scientific ideas about the nature of consciousness. “The [...]
Thinking of elegance as graceful, tasteful, of refined luxury, is useless here. So what does elegance mean in the context of science? Economy is a considerable part of it, creativity too. An elegant mathematical proof, an elegant theory, or an [...]
The fields of psychology and cognitive neuroscience have had some rough sledding in recent years. The bumps have come from high-profile fraudsters, concerns about findings that can’t be replicated, and criticism from within the scientific ranks about shoddy statistics. A new study adds to [...]