Heart rate variability (HRV) has recently gained attention as a key indicator of mental and physical health. Can HRV accurately measure mental fitness progress?

Breathing is often overlooked because it appears to be simple and automatic. Here are several highly effective methods of breath training and the science behind them.

Brainwaves can indicate a lot about what’s going on in the mind. Early evidence points to key neuroelectrical shifts during meditation, flow, and other altered states.

Unfortunately, your mind didn’t come with a user manual, even though it’s quite complicated. Here’s a simple framework for understanding how the mind works and how to train it.

Many of the world's major mind training traditions, from Sufism to Buddhism, point toward nonduality. This article unpacks the meaning, science, and techniques of nondual meditation.

Your screenome is a measure of how often you flit between different activities on your device: windows, apps, emails, etc. It has a substantial impact on your mental fitness.

The mind is a story-making machine. It concocts elaborate, often false and harmful, narratives to make sense of a complicated world.

The mechanism behind meditation’s transformative power is called self-directed neuroplasticity. Here’s how you can use your mind to change the brain’s structure.

Mind training can be discouraging because it often lacks tangible results. Here are a few ways of measuring improvements in your mental fitness.

The Stoics deeply understood our human condition, which has not fundamentally changed. Stoicism is a philosophy for training a better quality of mind.

Most people are inundated with distractions throughout the day. The Mental Diet is a direct remedy for this, producing more focus and joy.

Attention is a valuable and limited resource. By understanding how it works and gets trained, you can gain more conscious volition of this mental faculty.

Mindful eating is a revolutionary antidote to many common eating problems. By paying close attention during the eating process, you can improve your health and mental fitness.

When we lack quality social relationships, mental fitness suffers. So how can we form tighter bonds in a world of online connectivity?

Although gold-standard research on meditation is still in its early stages, initial studies suggest that it can enhance nearly every area of cognition.