Mind

Innovative testing has answered whether adult brains continue to grow new neurons.

Facebook boosts self-esteem but reduces motivation.

Perceiving your own errors is essential to maintaining your skill at a given task.

The width of your blood vessels is linked to your IQ.

You can train your mind to feel more compassion.

Mindful in May, the meditation program I’ve been following for the past month with varying degrees of success, ends this week. Thousands of keen meditators and their friends — maybe including you — have raised precisely $78,746 so far to help bring clean water to some of the world’s poorest areas. What a feat! That’s not all […]

Two new studies show music has strong positive and negative emotional effects.

Self-control is, paradoxically, something we look to others to provide.

I was feeling a little over meditation this week. Perhaps I shouldn’t be saying that on a meditation blog (particularly when my month-long Mindful in May meditation challenge is only halfway through), but it’s the truth. It’s not that I haven’t been enjoying meditating daily — I love the space it brings to my life — it’s just […]

Engaging in a creative activity brings similar benefits to meditation and, for some, respite from long-term illness.

It’s 5.30am. It’s dark outside the yoga studio, it’s dark behind my eyelids and I’m struggling to focus on anything that isn’t my stomach. It may not be the most fortuitous of starts to 31 days of mindfulness, but it can only go up from here. I’ve signed up to Mindful in May (MiM), a […]

New research shows that when it comes being happy it is quality not quantity that counts.