Apr 1, 2016 | Articles & Research
Elizabeth Blackburn won the Nobel Prize in 2009 for her work with telomeres – these are the protective caps at the end of our chromosomes. Telomeres play a key role in the ageing of cells and our life span. Every time a cell divides, the telomeres get shorter,...
Mar 29, 2016 | Anthony's Blog
In this post I thought I would get together a bunch of meditation quotes and give you some wisdom and guidance from various teachers and thinkers throughout many different traditions and from many different backgrounds. Each quote is a meditation in itself. So, here’s...
Mar 1, 2016 | Anthony's Blog
“Metta” is a Pali word that doesn’t have a direct English equivalent, but is often translated as “loving-kindness”. The cultivation of “loving-kindness” (metta bhanvava) is a popular form of Buddhist meditation. It was taught...
Feb 15, 2016 | Anthony's Blog
Unless we are living a very mindful existence much of our days are lived out through habitual reactions. Over time we’ve been conditioned to react, either positively or negatively, to certain stimuli. And very often these responses are not always in the most...
Feb 15, 2016 | Articles & Research
We probably all know that relaxation methods help to heal the body from the effects of stress. But, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA), have found that meditation produces new connections in certain parts of the brain which...
