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Mindfulness and Meditation Can Improve Health

It's lovely to stumble upon a interview, and even audio,  promoting the benefits of mindfulness and meditation! Check out an excerpt here and click the link below for the full interview! “Meditation is a practice, that’s why we call it a practice. It’s a behavior, if you will,” he says. When Allen began exploring mindfulness [...]

By |2016-10-22T08:21:13-04:00December 4th, 2013|Healthy Living|0 Comments

Meditation May Slow Brain Aging

"A 2005 breakthrough study published in Neuroreport found meditation increased the thickness of the brain's prefrontal cortex. Normally, as the brain ages the cortex thins and the brain shrinks. The prefrontal cortex is associated with attention, higher thought and planning. Researchers at Harvard Medical School in Boston took MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) brain scans of 20 experienced meditators [...]

By |2016-10-22T08:21:14-04:00November 12th, 2013|Healthy Living|0 Comments
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