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Five Ways Mindfulness Meditation Is Good for Your Health [greatergood.berkeley.edu]

 

According to thousands of years of tradition, Buddhists meditate to understand themselves and their connections to all beings. By doing so, they hope to be released from suffering and ultimately gain enlightenment.

In recent decades, researchers have been gaining insight into the benefits of practicing this ancient tradition. By studying more secular versions of mindfulness meditation, they’ve found that learning to pay attention to our current experiences and accept them without judgment might indeed help us to be happier. Studies to date suggest that mindfulness affects many aspects of our psychological well-being—improving our moodincreasing positive emotions, and decreasing our anxietyemotional reactivity, and job burnout.

But does mindfulness affect our bodies as well as our minds?

[For more on this story by JILL SUTTIE, go to https://greatergood.berkeley.e...good_for_your_health]

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