Meditation

Plan would return Kansas Statehouse prayer room to 1st spot

By John Hanna May. 29, 2021 03:04 PM EDT

FILE - Iowa center Luka Garza shoots against Illinois in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game at the Big Ten Conference tournament in Indianapolis, in this Saturday, March 13, 2021, file photo. Garza was named The Associated Press men's basketball player of the year on Thursday, April 1. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

Iowa's Luka Garza named AP men's college player of the year

By Aaron Beard Apr. 01, 2021 04:00 PM EDT

Michelle Elohim, a mother of four children, holds hammer to smash a side table in a rage room at Smash RX LLC Westlake Village, Calif., Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Pandemic fever got you down? Smash up stuff at the rage room

By John Rogers Feb. 11, 2021 06:06 PM EST

Meditation expert, author and speaker Mallika Chopra poses for a portrait on Dec. 21, 2020, in Santa Monica, Calif. Chopra is a “mindfulness consultant” on the new Apple TV+ animated children's series ”Stillwater." (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

With ‘Stillwater,’ Mallika Chopra brings mindfulness to kids

By Brooke Lefferts Dec. 29, 2020 10:10 AM EST

Amid pandemic, Baltimore neighbors work to keep spirits up

By Lillian Reese, Sara Chernikoff And Laura Franklin Of Capital News Service Dec. 17, 2020 06:31 PM EST
BALTIMORE (AP) — Phone lines are busier for Baltimore mental health hotlines as demands for their services are on the rise. And across Baltimore, neighborhoods...

A nurse cares for the patient in room No. 9, during his battle against COVID-19 at Bichat Hospital, AP-HP, in Paris Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. Even for ICU workers for whom death is a constant — and never more so than this year — witnessing the loss of a fellow human being to the virus can be a churn of emotions. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

'Such is life': In virus wards, death is a foe but a fact

By John Leicester Dec. 11, 2020 02:36 AM EST

This photo from Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, shows the new meditation room on the basement floor of the Kansas Statehouse. Former Republican Gov. Sam Brownback created a meditation room in 2012 on the building's second floor, but Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly moved it to create more space for her staff so that they could social distance during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Kansas Capitol meditation room moved to create staff space

By John Hanna Sep. 28, 2020 09:21 AM EDT

FILE - In this April 1, 2020 file photo, a woman stands in front of a Buddha statue while visiting the Kotoku-in Temple in Kamakura, Japan, near Tokyo. The powerful forces of secularization and population decline have caused the religion to steadily wane in Japanese society, with disinterest in Buddhism — and faith in general — particularly pronounced among the young. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Young Japan priests try to breathe life into fading Buddhism

By Malcolm Foster Jun. 12, 2020 12:15 PM EDT

Lobsang Tseten meditates and practices breathing exercises alone to maintain social distancing at a playground, Wednesday, March 25, 2020, in New York. Meditation and mindfulness apps have boomed in the last decade, part of the trend of the year that Apple noted in 2018: self-care apps, particularly those focused on mental health. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Christian mindfulness, meditation apps find their moment

By Emily Mcfarlan Miller Apr. 16, 2020 03:07 PM EDT

Millennial Money: 8 ways to switch up the new at-home normal

By Melissa Lambarena Of Nerdwallet Apr. 07, 2020 09:00 AM EDT
As COVID-19 sparks closures, cancellations and stay-at-home orders, household stressors are piling up. On top of health concerns, lost incomes and lack of...