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·October 9, 2021·7 min read

Hair Samples Show Meditation Training Reduces Long-Term Stress

Many people claim meditation helps to relieve their daily stresses. A new study provides objective evidence which supports the claims. Researchers found cortisol levels from hair samples decreased by 25% following a six-month meditation training program.

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·August 20, 2021·4 min read

Mindfulness May Improve Cognition in Older Adults

Mindfulness and meditation may offer small but significant benefits to cognition, especially in older adults.

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·August 12, 2021·5 min read

8 Weeks of Meditation Studies Can Make Your Brain Quicker

Eight weeks of meditation training enhanced brain connectivity between the default mode network and the dorsal attention network, allowing participants to quickly switch between mind wandering states and focused attention.

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·July 21, 2021·4 min read

Awareness Without a Sense of Self

People who practice meditation often report feeling "pure awareness" in which they say they experience consciousness itself. The state encompasses specific sensations and non-specific feelings, thoughts, and perceptions. Researchers say their findings will help explain "pure consciousness," and work to generate a prototypical minimal model for human conscious perception.

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·July 14, 2021·7 min read

Mindfulness Meditation Can Make Some Americans More Selfish and Less Generous

Mindful meditation causes those who consider themselves to be more "independent-minded" or egocentric to become less generous and more selfish, researchers report.

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·May 16, 2021·3 min read

Yoga and Breathing Exercises Aid Children With ADHD to Focus

Yoga and breathing training programs can help children with ADHD to focus their attention, a new study reports.

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·May 11, 2021·5 min read

Meditative Practice and Spiritual Wellbeing May Preserve Cognitive Function in Aging

Kirtan Kriya, a simple meditation practice that centers on psychological and spiritual wellbeing, may help to reduce some Alzheimer's related risk factors and improve cognition in older adults.

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·September 23, 2020·4 min read

Meditation for Mind-Control

Eight sessions of mindfulness-based awareness training give participants a significant edge in their ability to control brain-computer interfaces and the time it took to achieve proficiency over those who did not experience meditation training.

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·February 21, 2020·4 min read

The practice of meditation leaves marks in the brain

Three months of transcendental meditation reduced anxiety and resulted in marked changes in connectivity between the precuneus, left parietal lobe, and insula.

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·February 5, 2020·2 min read

Certain meditation strategies may help perfectionists

Mindful meditation helps perfectionists cope with stress.

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·November 13, 2019·3 min read

Take a yoga class and depression and anxiety improve

Yoga intervention reduces symptoms of depression and anxiety while increasing feelings of positivity.

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·November 11, 2019·4 min read

How meditation can help you make fewer mistakes

Mindfulness and meditation can help reduce errors. The brain's ability to detect and pay attention to mistakes improves following one session of twenty-minute meditation.

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