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French doctor Matthieu Ricard is a molecular geneticist, a Buddhist monk and a confidant of the Dalai Lama's. Neuroscientist Richard Davidson, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, monitored his brain activity four years ago, during a study about the effects on meditation on the human brain, and r... |
1 November 2012
09:38 GMT |
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The flu and the common cold affect millions of people each year, statistics show. Now, investigators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) draw attention to a study that may highlight a way of reducing the occurrence, length and severity of these conditions.
According to a team of experts at the university, ... |
30 July 2012
06:01 GMT |
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The positive health effects associated with yoga have been known for centuries, but modern science failed to identify the reasons why this technique is so efficient. New data from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) finally provide an answer.
According to researchers here, practicing yoga can reduce t... |
25 July 2012
11:08 GMT |
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Studies conducted in the past demonstrated that old people who feel lonely are more likely to develop health conditions including cardiovascular diseases and dementia. Now, scientists show that practicing mindfulness meditation is a simple method of reducing these risks.As made obvious over the past few decades, soci... |
24 July 2012
12:02 GMT |
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University of Washington investigators believe that meditation may be an easy answer to a thorny issue, related to the methods that are best suited for increasing employee productivity. Managers have been trying to find a magic solution to this problem for centuries, to varied results. UW computer scientist and profe... |
12 July 2012
11:50 GMT |
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San Francisco State University (SFSU) investigators recently took a closer look at the types of meditation people choose to perform, and determined that the most popular methods are not necessarily the most well-suited for an individual's particular needs or desires.
The team believes that people who say medit... |
9 July 2012
11:13 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) say that virtual environments can be used to teach people how to meditate, but also how to handle their stress levels better, contributing to improving their well-being.
Several studies have proven that meditation can improve people's state ... |
2 April 2012
10:35 GMT |
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A combination of modern methods for regulating emotions and ancient meditation practices appears to be very effective for boosting the emotional lives, compassion and calmness levels, in teachers.
Scientists at the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) found that this approach reduces depression, anxiety... |
29 March 2012
17:01 GMT |
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People who have been practicing meditation for many years seem to be able to shutdown certain parts of their brains, investigators from the Yale University say. Interestingly, these areas are exactly those involved in underlying conditions such as autism and schizophrenia, among others.
The same ability was not det... |
22 November 2011
11:02 GMT |
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For high school and college students, practicing transcendental meditation (TM) could prove to be one of the easiest, surest ways of reducing the amount of emotional distress they are subject to on a daily basis. The conclusion belongs to a study carried out at the University of California in Los Angeles.
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17 November 2011
08:58 GMT |
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Meditation may represent a low-cost solution to the wide array of health problems that are caused by stress. The phenomenon causes a lot of damage both in our minds and in our bodies, and counteracting it with meditation provides a cheap and effective method of keeping the side-effects in check.
Improving nationa... |
13 September 2011
10:32 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific research, it would appear that female patients who have been diagnosed with a disease called fibromyalgia experience a reduction in their chronic pain levels if they practice yoga. This form of exercise can apparently quell some of the pain that constantly haunts these... |
28 July 2011
10:07 GMT |
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According to the results of a new scientific investigation, it would appear that practicing meditation for just a few weeks has discernible effects on neural activity. The work shows that people shouldn't be swayed from meditating by the fact that hardcore practitioners spend years mastering this technique.All t... |
8 July 2011
10:13 GMT |
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A recent investigation conducted by researchers in the United States finally reveals a possible explanation for why practicing meditation helps those suffering from chronic pain experience a diminishing of their symptoms. The correlation was observed in numerous studies, but thus far experts could not pinpoint the ex... |
5 May 2011
08:31 GMT |
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In a new scientific study, experts managed to demonstrate that meditation can be a powerful tool for making rational decisions, as well as for dealing with unfair situations when they present themselves.Researches such as this one are informed by the fact that practitioners of Buddhism, who are known to meditate for ... |
21 April 2011
08:59 GMT |
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Wake Forest University investigators have determined in a new study that practicing meditation can have a positive impact on pain, reducing its intensity in patients suffering from serious conditions. Multiple sclerosis is one of them. It's an autoimmune disease, which means that a person's immune system no... |
6 April 2011
10:14 GMT |
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In addition to helping spiritual people cope with the stress of their daily lives, transcendental meditation (TM) can apparently be used to improve academic performances among students whose results are mediocre at best. The conclusions belong to a new scientific study,This specific kind of meditation can apparently ... |
22 March 2011
10:52 GMT |
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Engaging in meditation even for brief periods each day has visible effects on the human brain, say the conclusions of a new scientific study. It would appear that the practice triggers a reorganization of cortical areas related to sense of self, stress, empathy and memory, among many others.The correlation was found ... |
24 January 2011
11:00 GMT |
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British comedian Russell Brand is currently taking driving lessons, having decided the time had come for him to be able to drive his own car and not have to rely on someone else all the time. He’s also got an ace up his sleeve: meditation. The star spoke to People magazine just recently and, asked about how his... |
16 December 2010
08:13 GMT |
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Scientists demonstrate in a new study that people who are mindful of life, and willing to meditate daily on the current events in their life, are able to resist depression relapses just as efficiently as patients who take prescription drugs.Depression is known to come in bouts, and to affect people who have already s... |
7 December 2010
05:49 GMT |
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A new study reveals one of the mechanisms through which meditation acts as a painkiller, or as a way of reducing the intensity with which people perceive pain. The work shows that pain processing patterns are modified even after brief sessions of meditation.Test subjects who were analyzed during the new experiments s... |
18 November 2010
10:59 GMT |
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Tai Chi has proved to relieve arthritis pain and improve reach, balance and overall well-being, according to the results of the largest study to date, carried out by the Arthritis Foundation's Tai Chi.For those who do not know this, Tai Chi is a Chinese system of slow meditative physical exercise designed especi... |
8 November 2010
04:26 GMT |
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In a new scientific study, it was revealed that meditation carries a considerable influence over how much pain the human body can feel. It was revealed that the emotional impact the sensation usually has is significantly diminished in patients who meditate on a regular basis. One of the main reasons why this happens,... |
7 June 2010
04:05 GMT |
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People employ various tricks to make their cognitive skills sharper, and have been doings so for at least a few millennia. One of the most widely-used one is consuming artificial or natural chemicals, such as for example coffee and other stimulants. But a new investigation seems to indicate that practicing meditation... |
15 April 2010
10:05 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it may be that allowing soldiers some time to meditate before they go into battle could make them more tough mentally, as well as better capable of controlling their own emotions. This could lead directly to them being a lot more effective in battle, without the risk of snapping, ... |
20 February 2010
04:26 GMT |
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At this point, Transcendental Meditation (TM) is not confined to the Eastern hemisphere, where it appeared, but it is making waves in the Western World as well. It has caught on very well in the United States, where people view it as a way of relaxing at least, or getting in touch with divine powers, at the most. A n... |
9 October 2009
03:50 GMT |
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Undergraduate students at the University of Oregon (UO) are currently being taught an attention-changing and stress-reducing body-mind technique that was adapted in the 1990s in China from ancient medicinal practices. The method, called integrative body-mind training (IBMT), can yield visible results in little more t... |
20 May 2009
06:30 GMT |
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Ever since the Western world learned of the meditations performed by adepts of Eastern religions, experts have been fascinated by the influence that this religious practice has on the human brain. It would appear that, in addition to its relaxing purposes, meditation is also able to increase the size of certain brain... |
13 May 2009
05:48 GMT |
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People have been trying to achieve heightened states of meditation for millennia, a part of cults present in many religions. But, with Buddhism, meditation is the centerpiece, and some practitioners can reach amazing results, which have been recently also demonstrated scientifically, in a recent issue of the Associat... |
28 April 2009
14:01 GMT |
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A new scientific study claims that children and teenagers suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can experience a relief in their symptoms through the use of transcendental meditation. The paper also says that, when medical treatments fail, praying and meditating may prove to be a therapy wort... |
29 December 2008
17:11 GMT |
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A recent study carried by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that more than 38 percent of all US health care system patients underwent or are still actively following a complimentary or alternative treatment, to the standard one, as prescribed by ... |
11 December 2008
09:51 GMT |
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Lingon i Korg Software Creations has released an iPhone / iPod touch app called Meditation Timer. Your life will probably be just as good without it, but we reckoned that the “free for the first 5,000 customers” sign would most probably pique your interest.The official (App Store) description for Meditati... |
4 September 2008
11:01 GMT |
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Is meditation really beneficial? The integrative body-mind training (IBMT), a type of meditation, has been tested by a team from Dalian University of Technology in Dalian, China, and University of Oregon on college undergraduate Chinese subjects, assigned to 40-person experimental or control groups. The control group... |
10 October 2007
07:05 GMT |
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Meditation is like training for your brain. It has been proven to increase sensory speed. And now, a new research has shown that if you name your emotions, you can handle them. Putting negative emotions into words seems to calm down the brain's emotion nuclei, explaining the main goal of the meditation: to "let... |
2 July 2007
03:51 GMT |
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If you think that just the muscles can be trained, you're wrong! Brain can be trained also. A new research shows how three months of intense training in a form of 2,500 year old Buddhist mediation known as Vipassana ("insight" in Sanskrit) can sharpen significantly the brain ability, especially attention to deta... |
10 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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