Growing Research Supports Where Mindfulness DOES (and does not) help health

SELF magazine recently published a great article reviewing the evidence for health benefits of Mindfulness. The take home message of this piece was that there is good evidence for positive impacts of Mindfulness on depression, anxiety, and chronic pain. Evidence is also emerging demonstrating a decrease in inflammation and signs of aging with Mindfulness practice.


Key Points:

• Today, mindfulness meditation (versus other kinds of meditation) is the practice for which the most convincing body of evidence exists.
• The experts agree that, when looking at the science on the benefits of mindfulness meditation, there are three conditions with a strong and convincing body of evidence to support its effects: depression, anxiety, and chronic pain.
• Exactly how mindfulness meditation could help improve somebody’s depression or anxiety is not totally clear yet, but it might have to do with rumination.
• Outside of the Big Three (depression, anxiety, and chronic pain), the benefits of meditation become less clear.
• Early line research shows that meditation may help slow the aging process, including protecting the brain from normal cortical thinning (a sign of cognitive aging) and improving cognitive performance in elderly people.
• Despite all of the research done so far, experts caution against taking at face value grandiose claims that meditation is a wonder drug.

What are you waiting for?
Join us for Mindfulness Meditation Tuesdays at 9: 15 am or 6:15 pm and begin to see the effects for yourself. 

https://www.self.com/story/mindfulness-meditation-health-benefits

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