Two studies released this month which focus specifically on meditation in the corporate environment: #1 Creative Thinking The outcome of a study by cognitive psychologist Lorenza Colzato and fellow researchers at Leiden University (published 19 April in the open access journalist ‘Frontiers in Cognition’) found certain meditation techniques can promote heightened creative thinking. The study […]
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