Meditation may Improve Attention, Reduce Stress
WEDNESDAY, 30 JANUARY 2008
A recent research from China suggests that meditation might make a person more alert. A team led by Yi-Yuan Tang of the Dalian University of Technology in China put a meditative technique called integrated body-mind training to a controlled test to verify the effectiveness of meditation. Previous studies suggested that meditation can improve attention and reduce stress, but the studies are done in few randomized controlled trials. In the University’s study, the team randomly assigned 80 students to 20 minutes per day of practice, either on how to relax the body's muscle groups or on integrated body-mind training.
After five days, those who were trained in integrated body-mind training scored better on tests of attention and mood. They also produced lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol when asked to perform some difficult mental arithmetic.
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