meditation

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Just take a breather! - The role of respiration in meditation

Why is meditation healthy? Why do you feel so relaxed after that bout of hatha yoga at the university sport center? Was it all that stretching? Your heightened awareness during the body scan? It might just be that you were breathing slowly at the time!

Say Namaste to a New and Improved You

Yoga is not just a fad that your health-obsessed neighbor’s been caught up in lately. The ancient practice is quite beneficial, from relieving stress to treating depression. It makes one wonder, why haven't all of us been practicing yoga this whole time?

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Virtual Reality Meditation– the transport to inner peace for those who can’t get there

Prof. Bernhard Hommel and an interdisciplinary research team at the Universities of Leiden and Prague have been awarded funding from Technology Agency-Czech Republic to develop Virtual Reality that would facilitate effective Mindfulness training.

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Can Bodhi-Tree leaves stop a summer storm?

Meditation has long been considered a method used to detach from the world and oneself. In contrast, ADHD is understood as the inability to detach from all kind of influences. A recent study has now investigated if meditation could help people with ADHD.

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One session of focused attention meditation alters cognitive control

Our recent meditation study shows that only a single session of focused attention meditation can reveal a cognitive state in which currently irrelevant information is suppressed more.

Human Potential · Stress and Emotion

Let go of the pain - Cognitive Disengagement through Mindfulness

Can a meditation technique like mindfulness be the key to a non-pharmacological treatment for pain? Recent research suggests it can but there might be a flipside to these findings.

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Instant Karma! Better attentional control through meditation

John Lennon was so impressed by the impact of meditation on his mental experience that he wrote his famous song “Instant Karma”. Was he right?

Human Potential · Social

Optimize adaptive behavior through meditation!

Stuck in a rut? When feeling that your thinking has become rigid, what should you do for promoting a more flexible thinking? Meditate!

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Meditation makes you more creative!

Certain meditation techniques can promote creative thinking even if you are not a practitioner. Hence, it is not the amount of practice, but the state that mediation puts you in that makes you more creative.