In meditation, people sit quietly and concentrate on their breathing. As air swooshes in and out of their nostrils, they attend to each sensation. As unbidden thoughts flutter to mind, they let them go. Breathe. Let go. Breathe. Let go.
According to a study in the online edition of the journal PloS Biology, three months of [...]

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Scientist are doing their research on Vipassana -the meditation technique of Gautama Buddha and they are astonished with the results. Read this story from Livescience.com :-
Three months of intense training in a form of meditation known as “insight” in Sanskrit can sharpen a person’s brain enough to help them notice details they might [...]

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Here is an interesting and useful article on meditation I recently found in a website on Nepal
Harmony Through Meditation
By P. Gopakumar
MEDITATION is the natural course of withdrawing concentration from environmental, physical and mental processes and consciously directing it inward to a chosen focus of attention. But not many people know how to practice [...]

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Heart disease patients who practiced meditation for four months showed slight improvements in blood pressure and insulin levels, a small government-funded study found.
Patients who learned Transcendental Meditation did better on those measures than patients who spent the same amount of time on lectures, discussions and homework about the effects of stress, diet and exercise on [...]

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