Jewish Family Services of Western Massachusetts is offering “Building Resilience from Within,” its free, six-week, self-care series for caregivers and anyone experiencing heightened stress.

This mindfulness technique taps the power of vivid visualization and your five senses, and may promote relaxation, increase motivation, improve mood, and more. Imagine that you’re in a place where you ...

Just light exercise—10 or 20 minutes of walking a day—can be enough to take the edge off. The Centers for Disease Control and ...

Many meditation techniques are suitable for bedtime. These include progressive muscle relaxation, sound meditation, and guided visualization. Meditating in bed is convenient and may help people relax ...

If you’ve seen another runner with their eyes shut, focusing intently before a race, they may very well be practicing visualization. The practice of visualization is essentially imagining how a ...

Visualization, also called mental imagery, is essentially seeing with the mind’s eye or hearing with the mind’s ear. That is, when visualizing you are having a visual sensory experience without the ...

This is Present Tense, a series on mindfulness for busy people (read: all of us). Whether you're at work, on a walk, or hanging with loved ones, mindfulness can help you stay connected and engaged – ...

A cancer survivor, who is in her 14th year of remission, recalls how image visualization complemented her cancer treatment and suggests the practice may help others. The oncologist diagnosed me with ...