Understand The Importance Of Meditation As It Boosts Attention And Reduces Stress
October 22, 2007
Regular meditations for months and years have a calming effect on the mind, body and soul. Researchers now believe that in less than one week of meditation practice with the integrative body-mind meditation training method can produce noteworthy improvement in attention and a person’s state of mind.
The study of 40 Chinese undergraduates found that participation in 20 minute integrative meditation sessions over 5 days showed greater improvement in attention and overall mood and lower levels of anxiety, depression, anger and fatigue. This was compared with students in a control group who participated in relaxation training.
Dr. Yi-Yuan Tang from University of Oregon in Eugene and colleagues report their research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Integrative Meditation said, “This incorporates several key components of body and mind techniques including body relaxation and mindfulness training which have shown broad positive effects in attention, emotions and social behaviors in previous studies. This combination may amplify the training effect over the use of only one of these components.”
As mentioned, after just 5 days, students in the integrative meditation group showed significantly greater improvement on tests of attention and mood than did the relaxation control group. Their reaction to a mental stressor was also significantly improved, as evidenced by a significant decrease in stress-related cortisol levels.These outcomes after only 5 days of training “open door” for simple and effective studies looking at the benefits of meditation.
Source: Reuters Health
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