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Harvard Study Unveils What Meditation Literally Does To The Brain [1]

Submitted by Galactic Free Press on Mon, 12/29/2014 - 08:38

meditation-brain [2]

Numerous studies have indicated the many physiological benefits of meditation, and the latest one comes from Harvard University.

An eight week study conducted by Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) determined that meditation literally rebuilds the brains grey matter [3] in just eight weeks. It’s the very first study to document that meditation produces changes over time in the brain’s grey matter. (1 [4])

“Although the practice of meditation is associated with a sense of peacefulness and physical relaxation, practitioners have long claimed that meditation also provides cognitive and psychological benefits that persist throughout the day...

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[1] //soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/content/harvard-study-unveils-what-meditation-literally-does-brain
[2] http://theunboundedspirit.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/meditation-brain.jpeg
[3] http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Grey_matter.html
[4] http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/01/eight-weeks-to-a-better-brain/
[5] http://theunboundedspirit.com/harvard-study-unveils-what-meditation-literally-does-to-the-brain/
[6] //soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/category/type-post/inspirational/unbounded-spirit