Here is some of the enormous amount of research currently being done on meditators–and other information and links:
News and Research
Seattle Channel
Loving Kindness Meditation for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (video)
Air and Business Travel News
Meditation Improves Productivity Up To 21% (article)
U.C. Berkeley News
Meditation Beats Dance for Harmonizing Body and Mind (article)
Psychology Today
Your Brain at Work: The Neuroscience of Mindfulness (blog)
Science Daily
Mindfulness Meditation Training Changes Brain Structure in Eight Weeks (article)
Time Magazine
Explaining Why Meditators May Live Longer (article)
Insurance News Net
Aetna Building a Case for a “Mind-Body” Approach to Stress Management (article)
Archives of General Psychiatry
Meditation as Effective as Antidepressants, according to a study published in December, 2010. (summary of findings)
Discovery.com
Wandering Minds Less Happy Than Focused Ones, Nov 2010–People often think about things other than what they’re doing and it generally makes them unhappy, a new study finds. (article)
MSNBC
HealthWatch Report with Claudia Kalb on Mindfulness (video)
Medical News Today
The Emotional Impact of Pain Reduced by Meditation (article)
Humor
Some information about the health benefits of laughter at stress.about.com.
Life in Hell, by Matt Groening
The 24 Warning Signs of Stress
Gizmodo
Columbia professor designs a squirrel cage machine that obsesses over thoughts for you.
The Onion
Person with Almost No Responsibility Always Stressed Out
Mental_floss
A new art project ‘venting machine‘ could help you keep your stress under control.
Anecdotal
Teach Us To Sit Still: A Writer’s Search for Relief From Chronic Pain
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