Amidst the iron and streets and the grit and buildings of Buffalo, where steel and snow intertwine with hope and resilience, a new understanding of mental health and spirituality is taking root.

Study: Effectiveness of Meditation Techniques in Treating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Image Credit: Supa Chan/Shutterstock.com In a recent review published ...

Mindfulness can generally be defined as any meditative practice that emphasizes an acceptance of experience in the present moment. The intention is to allow any and all thoughts, feelings, and bodily ...

Working with a cohort of young people with symptoms of PTSD and depression, researchers found that practicing transcendental meditation can help reduce or even reverse these symptoms. New evidence ...

Cherie Doyen of the Trauma to Enlightenment Academy hosted the Trauma to Enlightenment fire circle on Tuesday at Cooper’s Landing. Participants were led through guided exercises and meditations by ...

This post is offered as a concise review of the evidence for meditation and mind-body practices in PTSD. Future posts will review the evidence for select natural supplements, biofeedback, eye movement ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Katherine Lopez exhausted physical therapy and spinal injection pain management from 1996-2005. The self-described 'energy intuitive' said she suffered severe PTSD after a ...

Mindfulness treatment that includes meditation, stretching, and emotional acceptance can help lower symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), new research suggests. A small pilot study of ...

PTSD is among the signature wounds of the past two decades of war. The VA estimates that up to 1 in 5 veterans who served in Iraq or Afghanistan have post traumatic stress disorder. And estimates for ...

This meta-analysis shows the mean effect sizes in Hedges’s g units with 95% confidence intervals organized by the four types of meditations: MBO, MBSR, OM, and TM. Gold bars indicate the results for ...

African civilians in war-torn countries have experienced the threat of violence or death, and many have witnessed the abuse, torture, rape and even murder of loved ones. Many Congolese living in ...