Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article: Wenner, Melinda (29 June 2007), Brain Scans Reveal Why Meditation Works, livescience.com, Retrieved on 2012-06-26Source Material [www.livescience.com]
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26 JUN 2012
Labeling Emotions Helps Control Them
Meditation and other “mindfulness” techniques are designed to help people pay more attention to their present emotions, thoughts and sensations without reacting strongly to them. Meditators often acknowledge and name their negative emotions in order to “let them go.” When the team compared brain scans from subjects who had more mindful dispositions to those from subjects who were less mindful, they found a stark difference—the mindful subjects experienced greater activation in the right vent...Folksonomies: meditation mindfulness
Folksonomies: meditation mindfulness
An experiment demonstrating the effectiveness of mindfulness meditation in calming emotional states.