There’s plenty of calming products out there that are perfect for your home — weighted blankets and light therapy alarm clocks among them. But what about when you are stressed out during your 9-to-5?

What can you do to bring a little more zen into your work life? You can put green plants all over your desk, you can listen to your favorite music, you can take all of those stupid sodas Jen from ...

It may seem curious that viewing a sparse landscape of rock and gravel can be an antidote to the day's chaos. But a Zen garden, a minimalist composition of carefully placed stones, is calming — if you ...

Do you remember desktop Zen gardens? Can you picture the small bamboo tray filled with white sand with its simple mix of natural rocks or smooth black stones, that miniature bonsai tree, that ...

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Ever since the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens reopened in June 2020 after the pandemic forced it to close for a few months, the garden’s curator Heather Grzybek said the number of visitors it ...

People-watching, window-shopping, obsessive reading of subway ads about hair regrowth. “We do so many things to take us out of our own heads,” said Katherine Isbister, an engineering professor at the ...

The purpose of a Zen garden, those stylized landscapes created by painstakingly placing rocks and raking gravel into perfect patterns, is the doing of the thing. Making sure every line is perfectly ...

Like most people, you could probably use a little stress relief right now. The Air Nomads of Avatar: The Last Airbender can help free your spirit and bring you into harmony with nature thanks to this ...

Creating a Zen garden is a wonderful way to cultivate a peaceful and serene space in your backyard. Japanese gardens are ...

Mini-Zen gardens, inspired by ancient Zen Buddhism, offer a meditative and relaxing experience through sand manipulation and design creation. The author, a cancer survivor, uses a Zen garden to manage ...