How meditation can reshape our brains
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...
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Optimizing your brain for happiness and effectiveness
A huge amount of research over the last few years has shown more clearly what happens in the brain when we meditate, and how meditation benefits us. Meditation, for example, Helps to slow down aging...
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Science and meditation: integrating a first-person experience into the...
The Enlightened Brain: The Neuroscience of Awakening, by Rick Hanson (7 CDs) Marjorie Woollacott, Huffington Post: As a long time meditator and neuroscientist, my interest in the effect of meditation...
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Mindfulness meditation linked to the reduction of a key inflammation marker
Click here for a Mindfulness of Breathing MP3 Fiona MacDonald, Science Alert: Mindfulness meditation has been linked both to a whole lot of health benefits over the years, from altering cancer...
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It’s brain science: University fights binge drinking with meditation
Recovery One Breath at a Time by Kevin Griffin (2 CDs) Susan Donaldson James, NBCNews: A song by U2 blares from loudspeakers as Dr. James Hudziak tosses a brain-shaped football back and forth to...
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Meditation expert tells us what the science really says
Check out The Enlightened Brain: The Neuroscience of Awakening, by Rick Hanson (7 CDs)!Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: So you fell asleep easily enough, but now it’s 3 a.m. Your mind is spinning, and rest...
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Tune your brain for happiness and effectiveness
A huge amount of research over the last few years has given us a better idea of what happens in the brain when we meditate, and how meditation brings us long term benefits. Meditation, for example:...
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Mindfulness meditation trumps placebo in pain reduction
Press release, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center: Scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have found new evidence that mindfulness meditation reduces pain more effectively than placebo. This...
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The surprising benefits of compassion meditation
Stacey Colino, USNews: In recent years, mindfulness meditation has garnered loads of attention for its beneficial effects on the body and mind. Now, there’s a new star on the block: compassion...
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Schools combine meditation and brain science to help combat discipline problems
Shaina Cavazos, Chalkbeat Indiana: It was the Friday morning before spring break, and Deanna Nibarger’s fifth-graders were noisily chatting and enjoying their breakfast of milk, granola bars and...
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