My Year of Living Mindfully is a documentary made by filmmaker and journalist Shannon Harvey that explores how useful mindfulness meditation can be in helping us deal with mental issues. Just over an hour and a half long, the documentary contains interviews with 18 scientists and numerous compelling stories that make you think about what ...
No one can avoid getting old and eventually saying goodbye to life. Some people are disturbed by this reality and get depressed having to face it. But people like Wanda Goines gracefully accept their aging process as a natural part of life and even find joy in it. Prior to her death in 2016, this ...
Sometimes, you can be under too much pressure due to professional and personal responsibilities. In such situations, it is important that you pause for some time and carefully analyze the issues that trouble us. If you do not self-reflect, you will blindly keep moving ahead, increasingly pushing yourself into an unhappy, stressful, and frustrating life. ...
Many people have a tendency to overthink. When troubled by something, they keep mulling it over with no end in sight. Research shows that overthinking can increase your chance of mental illness, interfere with your ability to solve problems, and disturb your sleep. Even your life might be shortened due to incessant overthinking. How to ...
You might have read that meditation is good for you. But do you know exactly how it can help you? Several studies have shown that it can have a positive physical and mental effect on a person. 5 benefits you can enjoy from meditation 1. Better self-regulation A study looked at the brains of Tibetan ...
Not everything in your life goes as planned. Many times, you will be faced with unexpected situations and uncertainty that you haven’t planned for. A decision made in such circumstances can have a huge impact on your life. The pressure to make the right choice can be so overwhelming that you might not be able ...
A child’s mind can be compared to an open book. As parents, we want to see our children’s dreams fulfilled. From birth to five years of age, the quality of a child’s experiences will shape how their brain develops in the long run. Mindful parenting is an activity well worth investigating. It is something that ...
Seneca The Younger was a Roman Stoic philosopher who lived between 4 BCE and 65 CE. Born in Spain, he moved up the political hierarchy in Rome to become a popular statesman. Seneca’s life He moved to Rome as a young boy where he was educated in philosophy and trained as an orator. At the ...
For eons, monks have been meditating in the caves of the cold and barren Himalayas. Disciples are taught the nature of supernatural abilities inherent in a human body (what Indian yogis call siddhis) and how to work with them. Ascetics, totally isolated from the modern world, apparently possess the power to defy extreme weather conditions ...
At the foot of Mount Liangshan in Shandong Province, China, there lives a senior lady, now in her eighties. Her name is Ma Chun. From the time Chun was a little girl, she practiced Buddhism and ate only vegetarian food. Ma Chun is a straightforward, down-to-earth kind-hearted lady with a heavenly bottle. This episode goes ...