Study finds clear–yet surprisingly different–benefits in 3 types of meditation-based mental training

Source: https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2018/07/11/study-finds-clear-yet-surprisingly-different-benefits-in-3-types-of-meditation-based-mental-training/

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As citizens of the 21st century, we face many problems that come with an industrialized and globalized world. I’m not a lawyer or a politician, but a psychologist and neuroscientist. So research on how to train helpful mental and social capacities is my way to contribute to a more healthy, communal, and cooperative civilization.

For the past five years, that research has taken the form of the ReSource Project, one of the longest and most comprehensive studies on the effects of meditation-based mental training to date. Lots of research treats the concept of meditation as a single practice, when in fact meditation encompasses a diversity of mental practices that train different skills and differe…

Source: https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2018/07/11/study-finds-clear-yet-surprisingly-different-benefits-in-3-types-of-meditation-based-mental-training/

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As citizens of the 21st century, we face many problems that come with an industrialized and globalized world. I’m not a lawyer or a politician, but a psychologist and neuroscientist. So research on how to train helpful mental and social capacities is my way to contribute to a more healthy, communal, and cooperative civilization.

For the past five years, that research has taken the form of the ReSource Project, one of the longest and most comprehensive studies on the effects of meditation-based mental training to date. Lots of research treats the concept of meditation as a single practice, when in fact meditation encompasses a diversity of mental practices that train different skills and differe…

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