Psychology Today

Pain, suffering and stress can be intolerable – but it doesn’t have to be this way. The second week of our t three-week course reveals a series of simple practices that you can incorporate into your daily life to relieve chronic pain and the suffering and stress of illness. Clinical trials show that mindfulness meditation can be as effective as prescription painkillers. We

I’ve been feeling quite miserable lately for no apparent reason. I knew that this state of mind, like all others, would eventually pass. Nevertheless, I decided to embrace the feelings and probe their origins. It led me to a surprising conclusion...

For many years, psychologists have known that: The spirit in which you do something is often as important as the act itself. So today, why not try approaching your difficulties at work or at home in a different way by adopting a different spirit?

The spirit in which you do something is often as important as the act itself. So today, why not try approaching your difficulties at work or at home in a different way by adopting a different spirit? You can make a start by downloading our Three Minute Breathing Space meditation.

Mindfulness training has been proven to help relieve anxiety, stress and depression whilst boosting intelligence and creative thinking. This is all good news, but it's also necessary to have a degree of 'toughness' (we prefer the term 'resilience') to withstand life's knocks and kick-backs. So, could regular meditation make you 'too' nice?

Imagine if you could cure depression with a therapy that was effective, long-lasting and side-effect free

It is possible to taste an alternative to the relentless struggle that pervades much of our daily lives. Recent scientific advances have discovered the secret of happiness and how you can successfully tackle anxiety, stress, exhaustion and even full-blown depression. It’s the kind of happiness that gets into your bones and promotes a deep-seated authentic love of life.