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Meditation has many studies supporting it, including imaging studies showing changes to the brain. Calling programs that teach it inane is just ignorant.
by lnanek2 13y ago
Meditation has many studies supporting it, including imaging studies showing changes to the brain. Calling programs that teach it inane is just ignorant.
- rayiner 13y agoNote the long chain of causality from "studies showing change to the brain" to teaching meditation as a way to improve management.
- potatolicious 13y agoI have no feeling about meditation one way or another, but "imaging studies showing changes to the brain" does not seem relevant to anything, unless said changes to the brain have a compelling causal link to something. Having people do something and watching their brains light up is cool, but without taking it much further is hardly evidence of the efficacy of meditation one way or the other. After all, changes in my skin conductivity do not suggest that I'm being haunted by thetans.
- wozniacki 13y agoIs there a single major study involving a randomized controlled trial that strongly suggests that long term meditation indubitably aids in a certain function of humans? For the sake of clarity, a major study is designed like this: Low-fat dietary pattern and risk of colorectal cancer: the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Dietary Modification Trial. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: The Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial, a randomized controlled trial conducted in 48,835 postmenopausal women aged 50 to 79 years recruited between 1993 and 1998 from 40 clinical centers throughout the United States. Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16467233 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16467233
- delluminatus 13y agoIf there is, I would love to hear of it. However, I have to wonder if you really only make decisions based on randomized controlled studies with over 10,000 participants...