"Brain Scans Reveal Why Meditation Works" Live Science , June 29th, 2007 - Click here to view the article!
"A new study shows that regular meditation may slow age-related thinning of the frontal cortex." MSN/NBC, November 1, 2005
"University of Toronto Psychiatry professor Zindel Segal combines mindfulness with conventional Cognitive Behavior Therapy, teaching patients to observe sadness or unhappiness without judgment. Segal's patient says she has now learned to identify the early signs of an emotional hurricane - fatigue, irritability, hopelessness - before it hits. 'I have the chance to catch it earlier,' she says. And possibly steer it off altogether." Newsweek, September 27, 2005
Jean Kristellar, Ph.D. from Indiana State University received a 1.8 million dollar grant from NIH for the study on the effects of mindfulness meditation on binge eating disorders. A pilot study demonstrated that mindfulness meditation helped reduce binges from four per week to one and a half. In a more recent study the results were consistent with the previously published pilot study. Dr. Kristellar explained, "While Cognitive Behavioral Therapies demonstrate promise, long term maintenance of weight change-particularly in individuals with binge eating patters-is uncommon." News Archives, Indiana State University, September 2004
"I think one of the great blessings of meditation is allowing yourself to take what we call good and bad without moral judgments. Self-forgiveness is very important in order to give you the balance and equanimity that are so important in the game and in life." Phil Jackson, Concious Choice, April 2004
"For 30 years meditation research has told us that it works beautifully as an antidote to stress. But what's exciting about the new research is how meditation can train the mind and reshape the brain," says Daniel Goleman, author of Destructive Emotions. Time Magazine, August 4, 2003
