Calm is a mental fitness app featuring stories, meditations, and music to help users sleep better, lessen anxiety, and become more mindful. Calm offers premium memberships worth $14.99 per month or ...

When it comes to meditation, if you're anything like me, you might be skeptical about it and need a little push. It's hard to focus on your own (have you tried to sit in silence while your thoughts ...

New Orleans has been going pretty much nonstop these days. There was the frenzy of the winter holidays, and now we’re entering an extra, extra long Carnival season — with a Super Bowl thrown in to ...

Guided meditation is a form of meditation that involves following the lead of an expert when practicing techniques such as breathing, visualization and mantra repetitions. There’s no pressure to ...

Meditation can help with anxiety, depression, chronic pain, high blood pressure, and sleep problems. Sarah Fielding, who's used Headspace before, tried the Calm app, which costs $69.99 for a year. She ...

The Calm and Headspace apps both offer guided meditations and some soothing extras. Here’s how they measure up. Meditation can be a simple path to feelings of calm, balance, and peace, among other ...

Amidst the modern-day mental fatigue, practices that can help calm the mind are getting wide recognition. Be it breathing or mindful practices, the results are evident as per scientific studies. Among ...

A national survey of more than 26,000 U.S. adults conducted by the Centers for Disease Control found that the use of meditation increased more than threefold between 2012 and 2017, from 4.2 percent to ...

The year was 1971. Aryeh Siegel was a graduate student at Berkeley, and he had just learned about Transcendental Meditation, known as TM. Developed by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, TM involved silently ...