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Meditate to beat stress
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Brief meditation boosts attention, curbs stress
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JUST RELAX It helps improve cognitive performance
Recent studies have suggested that months to years of intensive meditation can improve attention and lower stress.
Researchers now believe that less than one week of meditation practice with the integrative body-mind meditation training method can produce noteworthy improvement in attention and one’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, 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 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Integrative meditation, they explain, “incorporates several key components body and mind techniques including body relaxation, breathing adjustment, mental imagery, and mindfulness training, which have shown broad positive effects in attention, emotions, and social behaviours in previous studies.
This combination may amplify the training effect over the use of only one of these components.” The findings in this study highlight the potential value of integrative meditation for stress management, body-mind health, and improvement in cognitive performance and self-regulation. — Reuters
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