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Meditation May Soothe Stressed Hearts
A new study suggests that meditation may improve the ability
of the blood vessels to relax and reduce the risk of heart disease.
How to Get Smarter, One
Breath at a Time
Everyone around the water cooler knows that meditation reduces
stress. But with the aid of advanced brainscanning technology,
researchers are beginning to show that meditation directly affects
the function and structure of the brain, changing it in ways
that appear to increase attention span, sharpen focus and improve
memory.
Buddhists Really Are Happier
Scientists say they have evidence to show that Buddhists really
are happier and calmer than other people.
Finding Calm in the Chaos
A woman was assigned to take a meditation class and write about
it. She had no idea what she was in for. This article lists some
of the research on meditation too.
Meditation May Bolster
Brain Activity
Meditation may not only produce a calming effect, but new research
suggests that the practice of Buddhist meditation may produce
lasting changes in the brain.
Meditation and the Brain
This is a one-page PDF document by Andrew Weil on some of the
research about meditation.
Training the Mind with Meditation
A list of links to articles on how and why to meditate. Meditation
is one of the best stress-reduction techniques of all time, but
it does much more than that.
Mastering Your Own Mind
Distracted? Angry? Envious? There's growing evidence that attention,
emotion regulation—even love—are skills that can be
trained through the practice of meditation. Perhaps it's time
for you to become a high-performance user of your own brain.
The Power of Om
Meditation seems to energize the sleep-deprived. It seems to
help with concentration. It even seems to bolster the very structure
of the brain as we age.
Giving Meditation a Spin
Search the medical database PubMed using "meditation"
as the keyword, and you'll find there have been more than 1,200
scientific papers involving the subject published since the 1950s.
Only in recent years, however — armed with cutting-edge
technologies such as functional MRI scans — have neuroscientists
been able to look inside the brain to try to tell if the practice
can produce physical change.
Building Up the Brain
Regular meditation is shown to add heft to a region vital to
thoughts and emotions.
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