PARMJIT SINGH, PhD

Sometime back one of my friends called and said, “Everything seems great in my life. And still I feel a constant low-noise anxiety and antiness which won’t go away”. As I reflected on our conversation, my friend’s example is not an isolated case. We are living through an age of anxiety: sometimes it is situationalRead more

Previous research suggests that training in mindfulness meditation improves behavior outcomes of executive functioning of the brain such as working memory, attention, emotional regulation, cognitive control and decision-making process. However the mechanism through which this occurs was unclear. A recent study published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine illustrates how mindfulness training tends to connect variousRead more

Sara Lazar, a neuroscientist at Harvard, whose research has illuminated the brains areas which change with the practice of meditation was speaking to The Washington Post last year about her experience of doing meditation and the benefits she accrued from it. She is the same lady whose studies have shown that regular practice of meditationRead more

I am sure you have been pestered by your own wandering mind when it refuses to stay focused on the object(s) you are trying to pay attention. In some sense, it is not entirely personal: for some, mind wanders a lot and for others it wanders little less. It does wander nonetheless. In addition toRead more