{"id":36,"date":"2007-05-27T15:20:45","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T15:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/27\/meditation-sharpens-the-mind\/"},"modified":"2007-05-27T15:20:45","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T15:20:45","slug":"meditation-sharpens-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/meditation_news\/meditation-sharpens-the-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation Sharpens the Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientist are doing their research on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/mCorner\/techniques\/Vipassana.htm\">Vipassana<\/a> -the meditation technique of Gautama Buddha and they are astonished with the results. Read this story from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/\">Livescience.com <\/a> :- <\/p>\n<p>Three months of intense training in a form of meditation known as &#8220;insight&#8221; in Sanskrit can sharpen a person&#8217;s brain enough to help them notice details they might otherwise miss.<\/p>\n<p>These new findings add to a growing body of research showing that millennia-old mental disciplines can help control and improve the mind, possibly to help treat conditions such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Certain mental characteristics that were previously regarded as relatively fixed can actually be changed by mental training,&#8221; University of Wisconsin neuroscientist Richard Davidson said. &#8220;People know physical exercise can improve the body, but our research and that of others holds out the prospects that mental exercise can improve minds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read full story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/health\/070507_mental_training.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientist are doing their research on Vipassana -the meditation technique of Gautama Buddha and they are astonished with the results. Read this story from Livescience.com :- Three months of intense training in a form of meditation known as &#8220;insight&#8221; in Sanskrit can sharpen a person&#8217;s brain enough to help them notice details they might otherwise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"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=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}