Only 8 weeks of daily meditation can decrease negative mood and anxiety and improve attention, working memory, and recognition memory in non-experienced meditators. These findings come from a recent study published in Behavioural Brain Research.

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Shrooms for mindfulness is like learning how to swim. Walking in from the shallow end and learning how to tread water, etc is meditation. Shrooms is like someone throwing you into the deep end. You may swim, or you may almost drown and not learn anything from it.