Tag: Attention
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How Meditation Helps
A growing body of research is showing that there are many physical and mental health benefits to practicing meditation. Mindfulness (vipassana) meditation is useful in managing pain and distressing mood states. According to the National Institute of Health’s National Center for Alternative and Complimentary Medicine (NCCAM) “there’s evidence that [meditation] may reduce blood pressure as well as symptoms…
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Improving Working Memory and Attention
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Working memory is the brain function that allows us to hold information in memory long enough to manipulate or perform some action on it in order to solve a problem or come up with a response. It is considered an “executive function“, which is a set of cognitive abilities that allow us to plan, organize,…