loneliness

What to do when you feel unloved

Someone recently wrote to me, saying that she was lonely and felt unloved, and wondering whether the metta bhavana practice…

May 27, 2016

Fighting loneliness and disease with meditation

Amanda Enayati, CNN: Anyone who sees meditation as a hippy-dippy endeavor has found his or her view increasingly challenged by…

August 27, 2012

Mindfulness meditation reduces loneliness in older adults

For older adults, loneliness is a major risk factor for health problems -- such as cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's --…

July 29, 2012

Elizabeth Appell: “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom”

I sometimes think that my life has proceeded by way of a series of breakdowns and reconstructions. Such episodes haven't…

July 24, 2008