{"id":136,"date":"2010-03-12T17:05:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T17:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2010-03-12T17:05:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T17:05:32","slug":"meditation-boost-pain-tolerance-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/meditation_news\/meditation-boost-pain-tolerance-new-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation Boost Pain Tolerance : New Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/20141301\" target=\"Netscape843\">study<\/a> has revealed that Practicing Zen meditation may help thicken certain brain regions and lessen your sensitivity to pain.<\/p>\n<p>For this study, researchers recruited 17 meditators and 18 non-meditators. To measure the participants&#8217; pain sensitivity, the researchers applied a heated plate to each individual&#8217;s calf. In analyzing brain scans of the study members, they found that brain regions involved in regulating pain and emotion were significantly thicker in those who practiced meditation.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/20141301\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/20141301<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study has revealed that Practicing Zen meditation may help thicken certain brain regions and lessen your sensitivity to pain. For this study, researchers recruited 17 meditators and 18 non-meditators. To measure the participants&#8217; pain sensitivity, the researchers applied a heated plate to each individual&#8217;s calf. In analyzing brain scans of the study members, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}