Correction [Dec. 23, 2010]: The original version of this story misstated that after their three-month stay at a meditation retreat, meditators had on average about 40% more activity of the enzyme ...

The experienced meditators, interestingly, started out with better levels, and this didn’t change over the course of the study, which suggests that meditation has both short- and long-term ...

Zen meditation has many health benefits, including a reduced sensitivity to pain. According to new research from the University of Montreal, meditators do feel pain but they simply don't dwell on ...

It's hard to know what's real and what's just PR, but here are nine surprising people – or groups of people – who, based on my reporting and research, are actually pretty serious about meditation.

March Mindfulness is our new series that examines the explosive growth in mindfulness and meditation technology — culminating in Mashable's groundbreaking competitive meditation bracket contest ...

Meditators' brains seem alert. Friday, 6 July 2007 Anna Salleh ABC. Meditators might look like they're asleep but new evidence suggests they're actually more alert than normal (Image: iStockphoto) ...

In fact, the meditators are practising a prescribed set of exercises from Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline which China banned in 1999 and calls an “evil cult”.

Experienced meditators – those with thousands of hours of practice – can quiet the brain region known as the default mode network, which consists of the medial […] Skip to content All Sections ...