This meditation exercise is an excellent introduction to meditation techniques.Sit or lie comfortably. You may even want to invest in a meditation chair or cushion. Close your eyes. We recommend using one of our Cooling Eye Masks or Restorative Eye Pillows if lying down. Make...
If relaxation is not the goal of meditation, it is often a result. In the 1970s, Herbert Benson, MD, a researcher at Harvard University Medical School, coined the term “relaxation response" after conducting research on people who practiced transcendental meditation. The relaxation response, in Benson’s...
Meditation is an approach to training the mind, similar to the way that fitness is an approach to training the body. But many meditation techniques exist — so how do you learn how to meditate?“In Buddhist tradition, the word ‘meditation’ is equivalent to a word...
