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Meditation & Business Leadership
An article from The Independent Newspaper of the Harvard Business School Community (The Harbus) notes a new study that will look into ‘whether meditation can help business leaders increase self-awareness, mental clarity, focus and emotional intelligence. It is often also claimed that meditation helps a leader develop more authenticity, tolerance and empathy, which leads to […]
Australian Meditation Research
Australian study conducted by Dr Ramesh Manocha, Deborah Black, and Leigh Wilson published in Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Volume 2012. The first study to report a cross-sectional survey aimed at assessing health and quality of life in a population of people who meditate regularly and have done so for a long period of time. […]
Meditation increases brain size
Researchers at Harvard, Yale, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found the first evidence that meditation can alter the physical structure of our brains. Brain scans they conducted reveal that experienced meditators boasted increased thickness in parts of the brain that deal with attention and processing sensory input. Full article from Harvard Gazette