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Meditation for Your Health - Harvard Health

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Meditation for Your Health. This guide will cover some of the many different approaches to the practice, explain how meditation activates various parts of the brain, …

Mindfulness & Meditation - Harvard University

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Meditation may relieve IBS and IBD. A small pilot study by Harvard-affiliated researchers finds symptom improvement and changes in expression of inflammation-associated …

What meditation can do for your mind, …

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Although the practice of meditation is thousands of years old, research on its health benefits is …

How meditation helps with depression

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"Meditation trains the brain to achieve sustained focus, and to return to that focus when negative …

Harvard researchers study how mindfulness may change …

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The Next Frontier of Meditation Science - Harvard Catalyst

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The director of Mass General and Harvard Medical School’s Meditation Research Program discusses his study of advanced practitioners of meditation. By …

In the journals: Mindfulness meditation practice

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April 1, 2011. Mindfulness meditation alters regions of the brain associated with memory, awareness of self, and compassion, according to a brain imaging study by …

Mindfulness meditation may ease anxiety, …

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Dr. Elizabeth Hoge, a psychiatrist at the Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital and an assistant …

Eight weeks to a better brain – Harvard Gazette

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January 21, 2011. Participating in an eight-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, …

Calming your nerves and your heart through meditation

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Medical studies have showed that individuals who practice transcendental meditation daily had lower blood levels of epinephrine, norepinephrine, and cortisol. Transcendental …