What Mindfulness Is (and Isn’t) Good For

University of Wisconsin neuroscientist Richard Davidson and I used the most rigorous scientific standards to sift through the sea of publications on mindfulness and other kinds of meditation. We found that only about one percent of those several thousand articles fit gold standards for medical research (more on this in Davidson’s and my recent book, Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Body, and Brain). Those solid studies, though, reveal that there are four real benefits…

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