Mindfulness

Many people find flying a very stressful experience, but now mindfulness training has taken centre stage for one airline that seems keen to help their passengers handle long-haul flights. British Airways has launched a Mindfulness for Travel series, which aims to provide people with all sorts of meditation techniques to help them as they fly […]

If you have taken up mindfulness training it may be a good idea to consider whether your children may benefit from such techniques as well. A programme into social and emotional learning started by Academy Award-winning actress Goldie Hawn to help school children improve their learning abilities has now been backed by new scientific evidence.

If your new year diet has taken a bit of a tumble but you still want to make sure you have a bikini body this summer, have you considered undergoing mindfulness training to change your approach to food? Mindful eating focuses on listening to the body and its hunger signals, rather than restricting what you eat.

Mindfulness training courses could benefit older people, given new research revealing that the practice has positive effects on sleep, daytime fatigue and depression – the latter two of which often result from poor rest among the elderly. Conducted by the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, the study found that older generations suffering sleep disturbances

If you’re keen to improve your children’s performance at school, it might be worth signing them up for mindfulness training online, as it is now being suggested that the practice could improve maths skills and emotional and social learning. A study conducted to test the effects of MindUP (which puts a strong emphasis on kindness

Going on mindfulness training courses could help many people in the UK, with depression seemingly a growing problem – so much so in fact that there are 39,059 daily searches conducted online using the word ‘depression’ in the UK. This is according to the Priory Group, which found that there are 27 searches per minute

Everyone needs a bit of help every now and again, and if you’re feeling particularly stressed out, depressed or anxious, undergoing mindfulness training could help anchor you more in the present and teach you how to react to certain situations more positively. Here are some of the best mindfulness apps out there to help you

Mindfulness training is being used at a Scottish prison to help the inmates ditch the cigarettes, with an eight-week course in the increasingly popular practice looking at areas including thoughts, emotions and kindness, while simultaneously helping people get over their cravings. Official statistics have revealed that over 70 per cent of prisoners in Scotland smoke and the Scottish

Christmas can be a wonderful time of year but it can also be a particularly stressful one, with all sorts of unexpected pressures – but you can keep on top of it all if you consider taking mindfulness courses before the big day. To get you started, here are five quick tips. Meditate If you’ve

Older people concerned about making it through the winter in one piece and who are worried about how the cold weather could affect their joints might want to ditch the prescription medication in favour of meditation and mindfulness courses online. Relaxation techniques can do an awful lot of good when it comes to managing pain and discomfort,