Correction [Dec. 23, 2010]: The original version of this story misstated that after their three-month stay at a meditation retreat, meditators had on average about 40% more activity of the enzyme ...

It's hard to know what's real and what's just PR, but here are nine surprising people – or groups of people – who, based on my reporting and research, are actually pretty serious about meditation.

Zen meditation has many health benefits, including a reduced sensitivity to pain. According to new research from the University of Montreal, meditators do feel pain but they simply don't dwell on ...

The experienced meditators, interestingly, started out with better levels, and this didn’t change over the course of the study, which suggests that meditation has both short- and long-term ...

In a collaboration with expert Buddhist meditators at Wisconsin, we have studied the brain's electrical activity using electroencephalography (EEG) during compassion meditation in which the ...

You’re not alone. Despite how meditation instructions are usually simple (for example, to maintain a gentle focus on the breath), research suggests that new and experienced meditators alike face ...

Welcome to March Mindfulness Year 2: Gamers v. Meditators. Two groups of meditators agreed to participate. Both call San Francisco home, but they could not have been more diverse.

I've got a piece up on the site today about how well Obama played with the transcendental meditators of Fairfield, Iowa, site of the Maharishi University of Management. To the frustration of the ...

When the research team used a specially designed computer program to evaluate the “brain age” of 50 meditators versus 50 non-meditators, it found “experienced meditators have brains that ...

The meditators cheered Obama heartily — not at his occasional gestures toward political red meat, but at the lines that sometimes leave other audiences in silence.

The meditators cheered Obama heartily — not at his occasional gestures toward political red meat, but at the lines that sometimes leave other audiences in silence.