Benefits of Meditation

Evidence has grown that shows meditation can make you healthier and happier. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is sometimes used to treat depression, and brain-imaging technology suggests meditation actually changes your brain in many beneficial ways.

A study was done that looked at 50 long-term meditators and 50 control subjects between the ages of 24 and 77. Advancing age correlated with a loss of brain volume, as expected, among the controls. It was found that those who meditated suffered less age-related brain atrophy. This was reported by GMA News.

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