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Meditation becoming more popular among teens
Mindfulness Meditations for Teens, by Bodhipaksa (CD) MyCentralOregon.com: One of the most surprising trends among teenagers going into the New Year is, of all things, meditation. It’s due in large...
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Meditation changes the brain’s wiring and mindset, Harvard studies show
Meditations to Change Your Brain, by Rick Hanson PhD & Richard Mendius (3CDs) Debra Stern, HNGN: Sarah Lazar’s voice was calming even over the phone as she demonstrated, for this interview, a...
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Forever young: meditation might slow the age-related loss of gray matter in...
Click here to check out our online meditation store Mark Wheeler, UCLA: Since 1970, life expectancy around the world has risen dramatically, with people living more than 10 years longer. That’s the...
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Seven ways meditation can actually change the brain
Meditations to Change Your Brain, by Rick Hanson PhD & Richard Mendius (3CDs) Alice G. Walton, Forbes: The meditation-and-the-brain research has been rolling in steadily for a number of years now,...
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Science confirms benefits of meditation
How to Meditate with Pema Chödrön: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind Papiya Bhattacharya, The New Indian Express: Research at Nimhans on the benefits of yoga and meditation has found...
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Power of meditation as therapy explored in research
True Meditation, by Adyashanti (3CDs) Wayne Mogielnicki, Pocono Record: When Rebecca Erwin was a varsity rower at the University of North Carolina, the coach had the team’s members take a yoga and...
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Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche discusses the relevance of science as a tool for...
The Enlightened Brain: The Neuroscience of Awakening, by Rick Hanson (7 CDs) Tricycle Magazine: Born in Nepal in 1975, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is the youngest son of the eminent meditation master Tulku...
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Science assesses benefits of mindfulness
Meditations to Change Your Brain, by Rick Hanson PhD & Richard Mendius (3CDs) Gary Robbins, U-T San Diego: Researchers have an intriguing but incomplete picture of what’s going on. Jeff Lee says he...
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How does meditation make you smarter?
Training the Brain: Cultivating Emotional Skills by Dan Goleman and Richard Davidson (Digital Download) Viatcheslav Wlassoff, PhD, BrainBlogger: Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you don’t need...
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Meditation optimizes adaptive behavior
News-Medical: Certain meditation techniques can promote behavior to vary adaptively from moment to moment depending on current goals, rather than remaining rigid and inflexible. This is the outcome of...
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Science shows what meditation really does to your brain
Jon Levine, Science.Mic: Meditation, according to its spiritual gurus, is a universal panacea. Enthusiasts have long preached its benefits, which include its ability to lower anxiety, improve...
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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 on...
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Mindfulness meditation linked to the reduction of a key inflammation marker
Click here for a Mindfulness of Breathing MP3Fiona 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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The surprising benefits of compassion meditation
Get The Heart’s Wisdom: Development of Compassion MP3 by Bodhipaksa!Stacey Colino, USNews: In recent years, mindfulness meditation has garnered loads of attention for its beneficial effects on the body...
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Schools combine meditation and brain science to help combat discipline problems
Click here for Mindfulness Meditations for Teens: Getting Out of Our Heads (MP3)Shaina Cavazos, Chalkbeat Indiana: It was the Friday morning before spring break, and Deanna Nibarger’s fifth-graders...
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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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Meditation optimizes adaptive behavior
News-Medical: Certain meditation techniques can promote behavior to vary adaptively from moment to moment depending on current goals, rather than remaining rigid and inflexible. This is the outcome of...
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