October 10th, 2007Meditation Improves Attention and Reaction to Stress
Is meditation really beneficial? The integrative body-mind training (IBMT), a type of meditation, has been tested by a team from Dalian University of Technology in Dalian, China, and University of Oregon on college undergraduate Chinese subjects, assigned to 40-person experimental or control groups.
The control group received five days of relaxation training, while the tested group five days of IBMT training, the team focusing on how the subjects’ attention and responses to stress are influenced.
Both groups were tested before and after these experiments for attention and reactivity to mental stress (provoked by mental arithmetic). The IBMT group displayed higher improvement than the control group in an attention test assessing the subjects’ capacities to deal among stress stimuli. Read the rest of this entry »
