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Mindfulness meditation reduces pain

Peter Malinowski November 12, 2009 Research Blog 0

Even brief engagement with mindfulness meditation reduces pain: A few days ago the Journal of Pain published a study carried out by scientists at the University of North Carolina. In this studies participants took part in a 3-day mindfulness meditation …

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Meditation on buddha forms improves visual spatial processing

Peter Malinowski November 6, 2009 Research Blog 2

Especially in Vajrayana (Engl.: Diamond Way) Buddhism, which was primarily transmitted in Tibet and Himalayan countries like Bhutan, meditation on various buddha forms, often confusingly referred to as ‘deities’, plays an important role in formal meditation practice. In a recent …

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