More and more research is supporting the benefits of becoming more conscious, more self-aware and being in the present moment. Let alone reduce stress and fear. This is a very scientific based article.
Mindfulness is currently a very hot topic. It seems like every health website, magazine and newspaper is touting the benefits of meditation and yoga practices. Wired posted an article on how meditation can calm the anxious mind and help one manage emotions, Shape magazine relays that meditation can provide greater pain relief than morphine, while many other articles convey that mindfulness will help with weight loss, sleep, disordered eating, and even addiction. Amidst all of the articles promoting mindfulness we also see the backlash—a New York Timesop-ed from October 2015 calls for us to take a step back and remember that mindfulness has not been proven to be the panacea to our society. Personally, as a stressed out graduate student, I wonder if a mindfulness practice would increase my happiness and well-being, and as a neuroscientist I wonder what is true and how does it work, so I…
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