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Moving house is up there as one of the more stressful life events. Last week, I moved myself and my dog to a creaky 300-year-old house, in a town where I know just two people, and don’t know my way ...

Daily life can get loud, and meditation apps offer a simple way to carve out a little breathing room. You do not need experience to start, and you do not need to commit to long sessions either. Most ...

So long to December, and all of its indulgent fripperies. A new year has dawned, and with it a renewed zeal for doing more of the stuff that makes us feel good. We’ve compiled a list of the ...

Sarah wasn’t expecting to experience paralysis at 7 am on a weekday during a meditation at her home. But in August, while listening to “The Gateway Tapes”—a set of guided meditations intended to help ...

Lindsey Ellefson is Lifehacker’s Features Editor. She currently covers study and productivity hacks, as well as household and digital decluttering, and oversees the freelancers on the sex and ...

Sexual meditation can be performed solo or with a partner and with a guide or without one. It centers around the practice of mindfulness. With this technique you focus on the present moment, ...

Trying to find a good video for your little ones to watch on YouTube can be a challenge. Even if you limit the search to YouTube Kids, there’s so much out there. How can you determine what’s good and ...

Here’s another reason to hit the “pause” button and find your zen. A new study found that meditation influences key regions of your brain responsible for emotional regulation and memory, offering new ...

On a meditation retreat earlier this year, in the gentle hippy beach town of Mazunte in Mexico, I experienced a high comparable only to the feeling of MDMA flooding my system. I was suffused with a ...