Vanessa Hudgens is sharing details about her relationship to meditation and how much she values her practice. "I'm a big fan of an active meditation," she continues, referring to meditation in motion.

Meditation has always struck me as an inefficient use of valuable time. My distinctly Protestant understanding of prayer allowed me to come before God, unencumbered by intercessors or ritualized ...

Talk to anyone who practices meditation and you’ll learn tuning into your subconscious and tuning out the outer world can lead to peace of mind and new realizations to varying degrees. However, ...

The virtues of meditation and mindfulness are being extolled almost everywhere. Research has shown the practice of meditation can have positive benefits on emotional well-being and physical health and ...

The late Harvard psychologist Daniel Wegner wrote a classic paper in 1987 called Paradoxical Effects of Thought Suppression. 1 He demonstrated that the more you try not to think about something—the ...

The season when leaves fall is when everyone becomes a philosopher. It’s a good time to leave the noise-filled city, savor solitude, and become a “thinking reed.” Coincidentally, “silent travel” is in ...

"I'm a big fan of an active meditation," the "High School Musical" alum tells PEOPLE Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work ...