What You Need to Know About 10 Different Types of Meditation and How to Begin
Meditation / Pexels If you ask ten people what meditation is, you could get ten different answers—all of which might be right. It's a tradition that has been practiced for thousands of years and is used in so many traditions that there are already millions of ways to do it. “It's a methodology that cultivates inward investigation,” Diana Winston, director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center, says. What is the secret to meditation's long-term popularity? A increasing body of studies can hold the answer, confirming what many practitioners have been saying for years: Meditation has been found to assist with stress and anxiety management, cardiovascular risk reduction, chronic pain management, and sleep improvement. You will be concerned that in order to reap these rewards, you must set aside time each week and strive to fully clear your mind. But, according to researchers, this isn't entirely accurate. Rashi Aggarwal, M.D., head of th...