(Medical Xpress)—New published research from psychologists at the universities of Kent and Witten/Herdecke has shown that mindfulness meditation has the ability to temporarily alter practitioners’ perceptions of time – a finding that has wider implications for the use of mindfulness both as an everyday practice, and in clinical treatments and interventions. Led by Dr Robin… Continue reading Time perception altered by mindfulness meditation
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Study examines meditation’s potential to improve recovery after cancer treatment | University of Minnesota
Pat Rudolph had never pegged herself as the meditation type. Yet here she was in a weekly, two-hour mindfulness meditation course with a dozen strangers. “I’ve never laid still for 20 minutes in my life,” Rudolph thought when she enrolled in a Masonic Cancer Center study looking at the potential of mindfulness-based therapy to ease… Continue reading Study examines meditation’s potential to improve recovery after cancer treatment | University of Minnesota
Hard evidence grows for including meditation in government-sponsored health programs | Science Codex
More people still die from cardiovascular disease than any other illness. Dubbed the number one killer and the silent killer, modern medicine has been researching and incorporating complementary and alternative approaches to help treat and in some cases reverse and hopefully prevent this health problem at an earlier stage of the disease. One of those… Continue reading Hard evidence grows for including meditation in government-sponsored health programs | Science Codex