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Entries in meditation (2)

Monday
Jun272011

Mindfulness Meditation Training Changes Brain Structure in Eight Weeks

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, a team led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers report the results of their study, the first to document meditation-produced changes over time in the brain's grey matter.

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Tuesday
Nov232010

New Meditation Research: Putting the 'Om' in 'Chromosome'

Huffington Post : Living : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wray-herbert/meditation-research_b_780525.html

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

The Shambhala Mountain Center sits nestled among the remote lakes and pastures of Colorado's Rocky Mountains, where for four decades it has offered instruction and retreat to serious students of meditation and yoga. Starting in February 2007, it became a scientific laboratory as well. The center began hosting the Shamatha Project, one of the most rigorous scientific examinations of meditation's effects ever undertaken. The Project is now beginning to yield its insights, and from early reports it appears that this ancient practice delivers benefits that go all the way down to the chromosomal level.

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