You can imagine how the calm alertness of the meditative state provides an ideal basis for dealing with life’s challenges. Three recent studies by So & Orme-Johnson examined the effects of meditation on cognition. One hundred and fifty-four Chinese … Continue reading →
A strong study on ageing and meditation was conducted by researchers at Harvard. Alexander et al. analysed elderly people who were introduced to meditation. In short they showed numerous beneficial changes and ultimately lived longer on average than patients … Continue reading →
Dr. Wallace was one of the first scientists to study the effects of meditation on ageing, published for the first time in 1982. He found that when a group of researchers measured biological age (how old a person is physiologically … Continue reading →
In a randomized controlled study Shapiro, Schwartz, & Bonner examined the effects of a meditation based program on 78 medical and premedical students. Results indicated increased levels of empathy and decreased levels of anxiety and depression in the meditation group … Continue reading →
Emavardhana & Tori examined the effects of participation in a 7-day meditation retreat as compared to a matched control group. The post -retreat meditators had significant increases in overall self-esteem, feelings of worth, benevolence, and self-acceptance as compared to … Continue reading →
General psychological wellbeing amongst meditators has been researched. In an attempt to determine whether length of meditation practice affects personality, These researchers used a group of meditation practitioners with various durations of practice compared with non-meditative controls. Subjects were divided into … Continue reading →
The benefits of focus and concentration are obvious. This study was one of the key pieces of research in this area. Valentine & Sweet measured sustained attention in 19 meditators. They found that the meditators demonstrated superior performance in comparison with … Continue reading →
Here is a great title for a clinical study: “Dispositional Mindfulness Uncouples Physiological and Emotional Reactivity to a Laboratory Stressor and Emotional Reactivity to Executive Functioning Lapses in Daily Life” In summary, mindfulness meditators beat themselves up less! OK? You can read … Continue reading →
This paper examines the effects mindfulness has on people’s work lives; an analysis is presented of interviews with eight managers and professionals who practice meditation. It is an exploratory study, and analysis of the interviews suggest that persons who practice mindfulness may: … Continue reading →
This study was set up to test the effect of mindfulness training on pain tolerance, psychological well-being, physiological activity, and the acquisition of mindfulness skills. Forty-two university students with no pain symptoms participated in a pilot study, assigned randomly to two … Continue reading →