Meditation

New psychology research suggests that meditation training can improve a person's ability to detect errors while reading by preventing the reader from becoming distracted by off-topic thoughts. Meditation techniques developed within the tradition of Buddhism require practitioners to focus their attention solely...

Researchers Alexander Stell and Tom Farsides were interested in how the practice of Loving Kindness Meditation (LKM) may reduce racial prejudice; results of their study are published in the journal Motivation and Emotion. Loving Kindness Meditation (LKM) is a Buddhist concept...

Wisdom is often linked with age, but not all elders are wise. So, what makes a person wise? A new study, "The Relationship between Mental and Somatic Practices and Wisdom," published Feb. 18, 2016, in PLOS ONE, confirms the age-old...

Meditation and aerobic exercise done together helps reduce depression, according to a new Rutgers study. The study, published in Translational Psychiatry this month, found that this mind and body combination - done twice a week for only two months -...

Mindfulness meditation is associated with all sorts of benefits to mental and physical well-being, but a new study suggests that it may also come with a particular downside for memory. The findings, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the...

A study conducted with experienced scholars of Zen-Meditation shows that mental focussing can induce learning mechanisms, similar to physical training. Researchers at the Ruhr-University Bochum and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University München discovered this phenomenon during a scientifically monitored meditation retreat. The journal...

The use of mindfulness as a therapeutic intervention continues to garner attention as a treatment approach among diverse groups. Canadian researchers recently published a study examining how mindfulness meditation may be used to treat problem gamblers. The study, published in...

A recently released study has shown that a form of meditation called integrative body-mind training (IBMT) can produces significant changes in the brain after only a few hours of practice.  The researchers released their findings in a February 2015 edition...

A review of recent research has revealed that meditation, specifically mindfulness meditation, may help shape a person’s personality traits and promote a healthier self-concept.  Researchers Cristiano Crescentini and Viviana Capurso released their findings January 2015 in Frontiers in Psychology.  Their...

The first sex-specific study of meditation’s effect on the brain structure known as the hippocampus has revealed differences between women and men. In a study published in Frontiers in Psychology, researchers Eileen Luders, Paul M. Thompson, and Florian Kurth of UCLA used...

Combining meditative practices with pregnancy education could benefit mothers and their infants, but more research is needed. A study published in the Journal of Nursing Education and Practice suggests that prenatal meditation can positively influence fetal health. Chinese researcher Ka...

Is there real science in the spiritualism of meditation? Jo Marchant meets a Nobel Prize-winner who thinks so. It’s seven in the morning on the beach in Santa Monica, California. The low sun glints off the waves and the clouds...