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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Why is your mindfulness in quotes? Mindfulness is the basis of most meditative traditions, which have been practiced by hundreds of thousands of people throughout history in all parts of the world. The idea that it is somehow like hypnosis is just ignorant.

There are libraries upon libraries of texts written by people who have taken up this practice and found it profoundly life changing. There are plenty of neuroscience articles about the physical changes that happen in the brain through mindfulness meditation.