The Latest Breaking News from Meditation

Could the platform designed to keep us scrolling really help us to relax?

Charles Coristine thrived in pressure-packed environments when Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) hired him as a trader in the early 1990s. Twenty years later, he was suffering from severe burnout. He tried everything from meditation to enrolling in graduate school, but nothing seemed to cure his frustration. Then, he took a…

Big Screen Spotlight | David Cronenberg discusses his most personal movie yet

Meditation has become a popular subject on self-improvement podcasts, corporate strategy days and health campaigns. But beyond the buzz, there’s a growing scientific and clinical interest in meditation as a tool to regulate attention and promote relaxation. These are increasingly recognised as central to wellbeing in a world of constant…

Creatives reveal their secret weapons for starting the day well.

3/5 Diveen Henry gives a wintrily funny performance in this moving examination of a London Jamaican clan

The practice that helped me to sleep also gave me the clarity to end my marriage, and to begin dating again

The gold medalist on prioritizing both her physical and mental well-being.

In Serbian artist Iva Radivojević’s third feature – part memoir, part drama – a girl tries to recall her exiled past as a personal loss melds with the start of the Yugoslavian war

I've finally found something that gives my busy mind a much-needed break

The novelist’s meditation on grief, memory and radical acceptance contains both horror and comfort