Cliff Saron, associate research scientist with the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain, talks with the Dalai Lama about his research during a visit to India in February 2009. Intensive mental training ...

Visualization is a mindfulness technique in itself, but you can also use it to enhance regular meditation. Adding visualization to your meditation practice may allow you to better direct your relaxed ...

Meditation has been practiced for centuries, as a way to calm the soul and bring about inner peace. According to a new study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological ...

A specific method of meditation may temporarily boost visuospatial abilities, the ability to retain an image in visual memory for a long time, according to a new study. A specific method of meditation ...

Contemplative photography by Charles Blackhall. Wisteria flower hanging in front of a wall. “This practice, in my opinion, is really mindfulness meditation with visual perceptions as the object of ...

May 22 -- THURSDAY, May 21 (HealthDay News) -- A certain type of meditation may help the brain retain images for short periods, says a new study on visual-spatial abilities. When people view an object ...

Archaeologists in the Indus Valley discovered evidence of meditation in wall art dating from 5,000 to 3,500 BCE, according to Psychology Today. And while meditation has been practiced in other parts ...

The results showed that following the meditation period, practitioners of the DY style of meditation showed a dramatic improvement on both the mental rotation task and the visual memory task compared ...