sleep

If you keep falling asleep in meditation

One of my more popular guided meditations on the Insight Timer app is meant to help people get to sleep.…

May 12, 2025

Nurses get training to cope with stress

Sylvia Pownall, Irish Mirror: Overworked nurses in danger of burn out are practicing mindfulness to help them cope with the…

May 10, 2017

Seven ways to bring lovingkindness into daily life

My experience has been that although mindfulness meditation helps me to feel more joyful, an equivalent amount of lovingkindness meditation…

March 18, 2016

Can’t Sleep? Try meditation

Sharon Salzberg, Huffington Post: Throughout my years as a meditation teacher, I've encountered many students who come to meditation from…

January 18, 2016

How mindfulness improves sleep

Adam Hoffman, Greater Good Science Center: From the pressures of tight deadlines to anxiety about job security, the stresses of…

October 20, 2015

How meditation can help you sleep better

Esther Crain, Men's Journal: Not being able to fall and stay asleep at night is frustrating, and there's no shortage…

February 26, 2015

Mindfulness meditation may help older adults sleep better

Rachael Rettner, Live Science: Meditating may help older adults sleep better, a new study suggests. The study involved about 50…

February 17, 2015

Could meditating backfire as a cure for insomnia?

When I find myself awake in the middle of the night, perhaps after a trip to the bathroom or a…

January 14, 2015

Mindfulness-based meditation helps teenagers with cancer

Mindfulness-based meditation could lessen some symptoms associated with cancer in teens, according to the results of a clinical trial intervention…

March 13, 2014

What are our screens doing to us?

Watch this video. And ask others to watch it. Of course in a sense our screens are doing no more…

March 9, 2013