Psychologists
studying the effects of a meditation technique known as “mindfulness” found
that meditation-trained participants showed a significant improvement in their
critical cognitive skills (and performed significantly higher in cognitive
tests than a control group) after only four days of training for only 20
minutes each day.
“In the behavioural test results, what we are seeing is
something that is somewhat comparable to results that have been documented
after far more extensive training,” said Fadel Zeidan, a postdoctoral
researcher at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and a former doctoral
student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where the research
was conducted.
“Simply stated, the profound improvements that we found after
just 4 days of meditation training are really surprising”.
“It goes to show that the mind is, in fact, easily changeable
and highly influenced, especially by meditation.”
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