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The Healing Power of Meditation

A nonprofit group brings one of Buddhism's core practices to former inmates. And the Dalai Lama is listening. Read more

September 9, 2003

Helping patients to relax

Kidney patients are being given a new way of relaxing before their treatment - meditation CDs. Read more

August 23, 2003

Meditating on a cinema first

A new venture offers groups of people the chance to meditate in the darkened comfort of the multiplex. Read more

August 16, 2003

Mindfulness medication

Once considered outside the mainstream, today more insurers are paying for meditation, both as a form of medication and as…

July 5, 2003

Children get a yen for Zen

Silence settles on Keenan Barrow as he sits in a meditative position with his palms folded together in his lap.…

June 23, 2003

Utah Buddhists share meditation tips

Change Your Mind Day, a Buddhist gathering, takes place in over 30 cities across the United States. Read more

June 9, 2003

Serenity now: Monks will help police combat teen violence

Lowell [Massachusetts] police are giving Southeast Asian youths in trouble with the law or having problems at home an opportunity…

May 23, 2003

Buddhists able to train their brains to feel genuine happiness and control aggressive instincts

Buddhists who meditate may be able to train their brains to feel genuine happiness and control aggressive instincts, research has…

May 22, 2003

Buddhists really are happier, study shows

Scientists say they have evidence to show that Buddhists really are happier and calmer than other people. Tests carried out…

May 21, 2003

The brain at prayer

Ever since he was five years old, Andrew Newberg has been asking himself the big questions - why are we…

May 1, 2003