Quick Lesson in Meditation

Meditation is said to be a great stress reducer.

The first significant studies, in the '60s and '70s, proved that meditators could get themselves so deep into trances that they wouldn't react when they were prodded and burned. Another study showed that meditators, unlike marksmen, didn't flinch at the sound of a gunshot. And a Harvard Medical School professor studied 36 meditators and found that they used 17% less oxygen, lowered their heart rates by three beats a minute, and increased their theta brain waves -- the ones that appear right before sleep -- without slipping into actual sleep. A later Harvard test showed that the EEGs of meditators were significantly different than those of a control group.
Later studies became more sophisticated with brain imaging. One study showed that the brain doesn't shut off when it meditates but rather blocks information from coming into a certain portion of it -- the parietal lobe
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