Is meditation a sham? Can meditation do anything besides making you into a more spiritual-seeming human being? Does meditation actually work? Can it make you better, smarter, and more productive? Here's the science behind what meditation can do for you.
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Here are the sciency bits for your perusal:
1. http://www.psyneuen-journal.com/article/S0306-4530(14)00058-4/abstract
2. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3495556/
3. http://journals.lww.com/psychosomaticmedicine/Abstract/2003/07000/
Alterations_in_Brain_and_Immune_Function_Produced.14.aspx
4. http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2008-14857-004
5. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22483682
6. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22615758
7. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1979862
8. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2944261/
9. http://minimeyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/SPATIAL_AND_VERBAL_MEMORY.pdf
10. http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/03/27/0956797612459659
11. http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/01/19/cercor.bhr385.short?rss=1
12. http://pss.sagepub.com/content/25/2/369