“I feel like my brain is broken.” “I can’t focus.” “I can’t think of words anymore.” “I sit in front of the computer all day, but get less done.” Sound familiar? Concentration is essential to success in business, academics, writing, homemaking, playing an instrument – in short, it’s essential in our daily lives. To be …
In a scene from the movie “Kate and Leopold,” the character Kate bemoans the arrival of Sunday, literally as the clock chimed at 12:00 a.m. As she put it, “I wish it weren’t Sunday… Sunday is the day before I go to work, so it’s poisoned.” A recent study revealed that many people suffer a …
Just Five Minutes a Day Most of us feel overscheduled. In the midst of a pandemic, when our routines have changed significantly, we feel time goes too quickly and it’s too hard to find time to meditate. We still have the sense that we don’t have enough time. We feel that the demands are our …
Meditation helps employees re-engage Sad to say, but I don’t know many people who like their jobs. An article in the New York Times by Tony Schwartz and Christine Porath discusses workplace conditions that cause employees to feel disengaged, weary, and zapped of creative energies, and they propose some simple remedies. The authors found that …
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Meditation Improves Memory We know from research studies that Meditation helps our brains function by improving memory, lengthening attention spans, and sharpening our focus and a host of other health benefits. Meditation stimulates the brain. Studies of Tibetan monks who meditate many hours a day, every day, for years, showed that their brain activity was “off …
