A regular meditation practice has been shown to improve health, work performance, relationships, and wellbeing. This article lays out how to start meditating in simple terms. (The author is a long time Zen practitioner).

It doesn’t matter how many times we have a hurricane watch – as humans we tend to hope it misses us and we sit back and do nothing. Until it’s too late. We race from store to store and gas station to gas station, searching frantically and fruitlessly for food items we desperately need but failed to find when we had the time, supply and ... (more) opportunity. With proper planning, however, you can have plenty of top quality choices that will provide enough nutrition, taste and variety for almost anyone. Without some simple strategic planning, you will undoubtedly end up with … nothing.

There’s good news for people who can’t usually sit still long enough to meditate. Research shows one to three-minute meditations are just as effective as twenty-minute practices when repeated throughout the day. This article outlines how to enjoy such mini-meditations. It also looks at the latest relaxation method of yawning as a quick fix when you ... (more) are stressed.