Insights

0 Meditation and mindfulness are very much in the news these days, and it seems like all sorts of  people, including a long list of celebrities, are trying it. And it’s not just eccentric Hollywood stars and top athletes. Now even corporate moguls and politicians are advocating meditation. Here is a fairly random and very incomplete list of high…

0 Contemplative practices like meditation and mindfulness have been with us for thousands of years, but lately it seems like everyone is getting all excited about mindfulness as though we’ve just discovered something new. That’s because we have. Thanks to advanced brain/body monitoring technologies and DNA research, scientists have discovered a way to measure some…

0 Just read another clever post about how not to put other people off both meditation and your personal company by Dan Harris, author of 10% Happier and a familiar face to anyone who used to watch ABC news or Good Morning America. In his book he describes, with considerable humor and eloquence, his meditation journey…