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Stress Relief Made Simple: Discover How Easy Meditation Can Be
If you were to ask someone to list the benefits of meditation, they would most likely list off reasons such as lowering heart rate, relaxing, and increasing self-awareness. But did you know meditation is also credited with increasing imagination, creativity, and...
Harvard neuroscientist: Meditation not only reduces stress, here’s how it changes your brain
Sara Lazar, a neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, was one of the first scientists to take the anecdotal claims about the benefits of meditation and mindfulness and test them in brain scans. What she found surprised her — that...
How Meditation Can Reshape Our Brains: Sara Lazar at TEDxCambridge 2011
Neuroscientist Sara Lazar's amazing brain scans show meditation can actually change the size of key regions of our brain, improving our memory and making us more empathetic, compassionate, and resilient under stress.
A Stanford expert explains how meditation helped the Thai boys survive
After 18 days of being trapped in a cave in Thailand, the 12-boy soccer team and their coach have been rescued. How did they survive? Stanford expert Leah Weiss explains that meditation was crucial in keeping the boys alive. With insufficient air and a shortage of...
This One Thing Makes You a Nicer Person
As of 2015, Americans saw a drastic increase in major depressive disorder. Prescribed with talk therapy and antidepressant medications, clinically depressed patients were only seeing sporadic improvements. Benjamin Shapero and Gaëlle Desbordes decided to study...
When science meets mindfulness
In a study that explored the social effects of meditation, researchers discovered that meditation teaches people to better regulate their emotions. When people regulate their emotions well, they are more likely to empathize with and respond to a person in need. Find...
Stressed Out, Anxious or Sad? Try Meditating
After pouring through more than 6,000 academic studies on meditation, psychologist and author Daniel Goleman discovered the benefits of meditation. Through his research, Goleman realized that focusing your mind can make you more compassionate and can ease depression....
After interviewing 140 people at the top of their fields, Tim Ferriss realized almost all of them share the same habit
After interviewing 140 highly successful professionals, Tim Ferriss discovered that 90% of them all had one unifying habit - meditation. Many people view meditation as a hippie-like ritual; however, it’s really a practice that increases an individual’s focus,...
Here’s Why I Prescribe Meditation To All My Patients
Though we often recognize our need to maintain our physical health, we don’t realize that we cannot be physically healthy unless we are mentally healthy. Functional Medicine Practitioner William Cole, D.C. prescribes meditation to all of his clients due to the...
The Benefits Of Meditation In Business
Many individuals begin meditating as a way of coping with stress in their personal lives; however, several don’t know that meditation can positively affect their professional lives. As it turns out, there are many business owners, such as Founder of Bridgewater...
Meditation Can Actually Lead To Growth In Certain Regions Of The Brain
Research compiled by the Max Planck Institute of Human Cognitive and Brain Studies shows that different types of meditation can lead to growth in certain regions of the brain. This study explores three types of meditation - mindfulness meditation, loving kindness...
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