Researchers investigating the effectiveness of mindfulness found that after just five days of meditating for a very short time, participants showed increased blood flow to the area of the brain that helps to control emotions and behaviour. After eleven hours of meditation had been completed, actual physical changes in this part of the brain had

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Gently shifting your own perspective in a journal this way could lead to you being able to do it on the spur of the moment, as stressful events unfold. One interesting finding of the above study is that people who practiced this technique scored higher on a measure of emotional resiliency, i.e., they were more likely to believe that they were

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Two weeks of 20-minute yoga nidra sessions led to a higher percentage of delta-waves in deep sleep and better memory, decision-making, and abstraction