recently my T has been working with me to help me with meditation and mindfulness. i do feel it is helping me. i'm sure some may not agree with these findings but hope others may want to consider this in soothing the mind, so to speak. the article is fairly long but due to large pics on the pages.
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Research has shown that mediation has a multitude of health benefits, from stress relief, to lowering blood pressure, to helping people with cancer. A new study shows that it could also have effects on psychiatric disorders.
In the study to be published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Yale University found that people who are experienced meditators have the ability to turn off certain brain regions tied with daydreaming, autism and schizophrenia.
"Meditation's ability to help people stay in the moment has been part of philosophical and contemplative practices for thousands of years," study researcher Judson A. Brewer, psychiatry
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