Ruling out placebos for pills is easy. I'm struggling in what a placebo with the "meditative form" looks like. You could tell one group to focus on something un

Ruling out placebos for pills is easy. I'm struggling in what a placebo with the "meditative form" looks like. You could tell one group to focus on something unusual but practicing focus is a part of meditation. There are plenty of studies that show benefits in specific tasks (around empathy or focus) and there are others around changes to the brain. Here's one from Harvard that showed 8 weeks of medititatoin corelated with significant changes in the brain: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/01/eight-weeks-to-a-better-brain/ http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/01/eight-weeks-to...