“Before I die, I need to know what I did wrong to suffer like this … I picked money out of my father’s pocket. I lied to people …” One day in November 2019, Kim Gyeongil, 67, was walking down a street in Seoul alone, tired and melancholy, at odds with the bustling atmosphere around…

“Before I die, I need to know what I did wrong to suffer like this … I picked money out of my father’s pocket. I lied to people …” One day in November 2019, Kim Gyeongil, 67, was walking down a street in Seoul alone, tired and melancholy, at odds with the bustling atmosphere around…

While a new study shows the effectiveness of “cyclical breathing,” Falun Gong has benefited millions by balancing the immune system, evidenced by a genomics study. A study with over a hundred participants, published in January of 2023 in the journal Cell Reports Medicine, tested the effectiveness of mindfulness meditation against three different breathing exercises. This…

Yoga, meditation, and other mindfulness practices may help people with Type 2 diabetes lower their blood sugar—nearly to the degree that standard medications like metformin do, a new analysis suggests. That does not mean people should swap their medication for meditation. The trials in the analysis all tested body-mind practices as an addition to standard diabetes treatment—not as…

In recent years, meditation has become a social trend. While the body appears calm on the surface when meditating, the genes in the body change dramatically. 14 Percent of Americans Have Meditated From the late 1970s to the 1990s, a variety of Chinese qigong masters came out to teach qigong practices, and many Chinese people…

A young mother felt like she was given a death sentence when doctors said her stage-3 breast cancer was linked to an estrogen disorder, which required “turning off” the functions of her ovaries. Struggling to endure the painful treatments, she battled through scary visions of her own funeral. Fortunately, during the darkest days of her…

We can’t see the air around us, but we can feel it. We walk in it, we breathe it in. And we can’t live without it. So what about energy? Not the energy we make to power our homes, our cars, and our phones, but the energy that keeps our hearts beating. We can’t see…