Body, Mind & Soul

Meditation has many health benefits and can help improve upon one's physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. Despite its spiritual connections, western science has identified ways in which ...

Concentration is essential for mental well being as well as day to day functioning. Improved concentration will help you to enjoy better your work life, social life and leisure time. Sports, ...

Meditation works on a number of different levels and in a number of different ways' although primarily it simply restores one to a natural state of relaxation. Rather than considering how meditation ...

Meditation is often perceived as taking care of the spiritual or psychological element of our wellbeing primarily. However, to focus purely on one faculty of our being could be detrimental to the ...

Keeping a meditation journal or 'diary' is often felt to be a useful way of progressing one's meditation technique. By keeping a journal it is possible to document sensations, impressions and ...

Before embarking on meditation for the purpose of spiritual enlightenment, or just for relaxation it is worth taking the time to establish the right frame of mind and a suitable environment. In ...

Sex and Meditation has been covered to some extent in ‘Sensual Meditation (see related article). However, perhaps more needs to be said in light of the fact that sex and spirituality seem somehow to ...

As it is the central purpose of meditation to focus on sensations as they arise a focus on the five senses, through which we experience the world around us is essential. By being mindful of and ...

A mantra is a word or poem repeated as a form of devotion during meditation. Traditionally mantras are used by Hindus and Buddhists as a means to focus the mind and attain a form of spiritual ...

Breathing in a way that is both relaxed and attentive is central to the practice of meditation. There are many ways to achieve employing mantras and visualisations, although it is possible to pay ...

It has been long known that meditation can help one to relax and so it therefore has always seemed to follow that meditation can also help on to use ones brain more effectively. Stress, which can ...

Progressive Muscle Relaxation is a Form of meditation conceived by Edmund Jacobson in the U.S. in 1929. The aim pf PMR is to develop an understanding of muscular tension through the deliberate ...

Meditation as a spiritual practice is not traceable to any one point in time and may precede all of the world religions, with some yogic disciplines claiming to be older than Hinduism, the oldest ...

Meditation is a means of relaxation, medical treatment and spiritual progression. The word itself finds its roots in the Latin 'meditatio' which means intense reflection or contemplation of an ...

When embarking on a course of meditation, whether as a spiritual journey, or as a general lifestyle decision it is important to identify the causes of stress as they relate to us. Spiritually ...

Meditation has many benefits for physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing. As meditating affects the quality of your breathing, and breathing is essential to healthy living, there is no one who ...