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The research found meditation training worked better on freshman students, who may have more difficulty concentrating. “This data from this study suggest that meditation may help students who might have trouble paying attention or focusing,” said George Mason University, Virgina, professor Robert Youmans, who co-lead the study with Ramsburg. Read  more here…

All “yoga” practices are about learning to pay attention. It doesn’t matter if you chant, do asana, breathe, meditate, study, or scrub floors. The training is the same: learn to pay attention. As we get stronger at focusing our attention, we become more conscious, more aware. Attention drives transformation!! Read more here…

A study of some 50 adults suggests that meditation and other practices evoking the “relaxation response” can counteract the “harmful genomic effects of stress.” That is, doing yoga, praying and meditating may actually have an “observable, biological effect” on us by altering gene expression. Read more here…

Running a business can be an emotional roller coaster ride, and it’s easy to get caught up in worries about the future or frustrations with the past. Meditation helps to center you in the present moment, making the trials of entrepreneurship more manageable and the lifestyle more sustainable. Read more here…

A new study has found that elicitation of the relaxation response – a physiologic state of deep rest induced by practices such as meditation, yoga, deep breathing and prayer – produces immediate changes in the expression of genes involved in immune function, energy metabolism and insulin secretion. Read more here…

The push-up is an incredible tool to help you get in great physical shape; that’s why it’s used in almost every gym in America. With all the scientific evidence pointing to mindfulness meditation, the practice is literally becoming America’s next push-up for the brain. Read more here…

“Stress weakens resilience and resolve and fuels anxiety and fatigue. Transcendental Meditation is a ‘warrior’s meditation’ that is practiced by thousands of professional and amateur athletes as well as active-duty personnel in all branches of the military to increase energy, focus, and power.” Read more here…

Today, music therapy is used by health care professionals to promote healing and enhance quality of life for their patients. Music therapy may be used to encourage emotional expression, promote social interaction, relieve symptoms, and for other purposes. Read more here…

Music can spark compelling outcomes in the late stages of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, according to the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America. Because rhythmic responses are influenced by a part of the brain that responds directly to auditory cues and requires little cognitive functioning, music has the power to stimulate positive interactions and manage mood changes. Read more here…

Sound healing expert and yoga teacher Amy Beveridge, who teaches at Alchemy in Camden, says it now hosts five gong classes a week to meet demand, while special sessions held on the new moon and full moon — seen as especially significant times to meditate — are packed. Read more here…