Meditation ‘better than morphine’ for relieving pain

meditating young man

Date: 6th April 2011 Source: The Daily Mail A study using 15 people that have never meditated before found that meditation can easily and effectively reduce pain. The meditation study, conducted at the Wake Baptist Medical Centre in North Carolina, found that meditators…

Meditation ‘helps us make more rational decisions’

eyes closed in meditation

Date: April 20th, 2011 Source: USA Today In this months ‘Frontiers of Decision Neuroscience’ , a study on meditators asked them to participate in a classic psychological experiment called the Ultimatum game. The game asked the meditators…

Brains of Buddhist Monks scanned in meditation study

meditation study on monks

Date: 24th April 2011 Source: BBC News Meditation research is being carried out at a New York University to contrast the meditation state and the resting state. ‘Zoran Josipovic, a research scientist and adjunct professor at New York University, says he has been peering into the brains of monks while they meditate…’