The Science Behind Good Vibes: How Mindfulness Actually Works

Waking Times: Achieving mindfulness through meditation has helped people maintain a healthy mind by quelling negative emotions and thoughts, such as desire, anger and anxiety, and encouraging more positive dispositions such as compassion, empathy and forgiveness. Those who have reaped the benefits of mindfulness know that it works. But how exactly does it work? There is a measurable benefit that people could achieve through body-mind meditation, especially involving an effective training regimen. Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have proposed a new model that shifts how we think about mindfulness. Rather than describing mindfulness as a single dimension of cognition, the researchers demonstrate that mindfulness actually involves a broad framework of complex mechanisms in the brain. In essence, they have laid out the science behind mindfulness....read more>>>...