Fighting loneliness and disease with meditation

Anyone who sees meditation as a hippy-dippy endeavor has found his or her view increasingly challenged by science in recent years.

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Meditation and other contemplative practices are continuing to claim their place at the table of mainstream medicine.

This is true for a slew of reasons: chief among them, the recognition that hordes of us are stressed out, that stress wreaks havoc upon our bodies and that the practice of meditation has significant and measurable stress-reduction properties.

In a recent study led by J. David Creswell, assistant professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon's Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, mindfulness-based meditation continues to reveal itself as a therapeutic powerhouse, with far-reaching influence on both psychological and physical health.

The study, published in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity, extends the benefits of mindfulness-based meditation into previously uncharted territories: helping to reduce loneliness and the risk of disease in older adults.

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/25/health/meditation-loneliness-inflammation-enayati/index.html

I'd rather take a cat nap...

Fighting loneliness and disease with meditation

Fighting loneliness and disease with meditation

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