Studies suggest that meditation does all sorts of great stuff for you, like increasing memory and awareness while decreasing stress and negative emotions. But if you've never done it, mindfulness ...

Participants in the mindfulness meditation group rated their pain lower than those in the placebo meditation and placebo cream groups.

Mindfulness, or shamatha, is a subdiscipline of meditation. It is, in part, an exercise in nonattachment. In the Buddhist wisdom teachings, attachment—or grasping and clinging—is described as ...