How To Meditate Like A Zen Monk For Overall Health and Well Being
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009Mediation has enormous benefits. Studies of meditation have proven to greatly reduce stress, improve health as well as control negative thoughts.
In a report by “Psychology Today“ Neuroscientists have found that meditators shift their brain activity to different areas of the cortex-brain waves in the stress-prone right frontal cortex move to the calmer left frontal cortex. In other words, they were calmer and happier than before.
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, recorded the brain waves of stressed-out employees of a high-tech firm in Madison, Wisconsin. The subjects were split randomly into two groups, 25 people were asked to learn meditation over eight weeks, and the remaining 16 were left alone as a control group. (more…)
