Melinda Beck: How you think about pain can have a major impact on how it feels. That's the intriguing conclusion…
Liverpool John Moores University is looking for people interested in meditation and attention to take part in two separate research…
Compassion is essentially the wish that beings not suffer - from subtle physical and emotional discomfort to agony and anguish…
Mark Fenske: Between the heavy mallet and the paving stone, my misplaced finger didn’t stand a chance. But it wasn’t…
Many interactions these days have a kind of bumper-car quality to them. At work, at home, on the telephone, via…
Tone matters. I remember times I felt frazzled or aggravated and then said something with an edge to it that…
Things come at us with so much urgency and demand these days. Phones ring, texts buzz, emails pile up, new…
Alex Knapp, Forbes: Dr. Kerr received her BA in American Studies from Amherst College and her PhD in History and…
Studies have shown that meditating regularly can help relieve chronic pain, but the neural mechanisms underlying the relief were unclear.…
We evolved to be afraid. The ancient ancestors that were casual and blithely hopeful, underestimating the risks around them -…