When it comes to loving our husbands, we try our best. We show love in any way we can. We try to keep the house looking fabulous, we work on sprucing up our cooking skills to produce delicious dishes, we work together to help raise our children, and we even try to find the never-ending missing socks when it’s time to fold the laundry! But loving your husband is so much more than that and requires one key ingredient… that you love yourself!...

Using brain imaging data from a previous investigation of the impact of meditation on cortical thickness, this new study examined whether the estimated brain composition of meditators aged 50 and beyond differed from that of non-meditators. To answer this question, researchers compared brain images of a matched sample of 50 meditators and 50 non-meditating controls ranging in age from 24 to 77 years. Both groups included 22 women and 28 men, and had a mean age of 51....

Contemplatives including Matthieu Ricard, Sharon Salzberg, and Joan Halifax will deliver Keynote Address and Master Lectures on the nature of contemplative practices and how they can inform science. For registration and other information visit contemplativeresearch.org.

The Greater Good Science Center, in partnership with Mindful, presents this one-day conference that bridges the growing movement around mindfulness and compassion with scientific research. This day-long conference supports the mindfulness movement by fuelling it with science. Researchers studying mindfulness—including keynote Jon Kabat-Zinn—will talk about how to apply the latest findings to daily life, and mindfulness practitioners will practice research-tested mindfulness and compassion techniques. The conference takes place March 8, 2013 at the Craneway Pavilion Center or via live webcast....

Q: What compelled you to start meditating? A: I think basically my own inner misery and dissatisfaction. I was just dominated by my sadness and anxiety and I felt a sense of inadequacy with my inability to love myself and felt just generally lost and unhappy. When I started seeing that some of the biggest parts of my unhappiness were related to me allowing my craving to just dominate my action, and I saw how unhealthy I had become by consuming a lot of different drugs, not taking care of myself, using drugs as a vehicle to get as far away from myself as possible, it all came to a screeching halt....