{"id":80,"date":"2012-04-02T14:14:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T14:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/?p=97"},"modified":"2022-01-04T19:50:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T19:50:56","slug":"meditation-can-reduce-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/advanced\/2012\/04\/02\/meditation-can-reduce-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation Can Reduce Stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-241\" title=\"meditation\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog-lecerveau.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/meditation.jpg\" alt=\"meditation\" width=\"110\" height=\"110\" \/>In a study published in 2007, people who practiced a method of meditation\u00a0known as Integrative Body-Mind Training, or IBMT, for five days showed better <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrain.mcgill.ca\/flash\/a\/a_12\/a_12_p\/a_12_p_con\/a_12_p_con.html#4\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">attention <\/span><\/a>and better ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrain.mcgill.ca\/flash\/capsules\/outil_jaune02.html\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">manage stress<\/span><\/a> and its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrain.mcgill.ca\/flash\/a\/a_08\/a_08_m\/a_08_m_dep\/a_08_m_dep.html\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">harmful effects<\/span><\/a> than people in a control group who were given only relaxation training.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>These results have just been confirmed by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrain.mcgill.ca\/flash\/capsules\/outil_bleu13.html\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">brain-imaging<\/span><\/a> study by the same research team. This study showed that people who had meditated showed better regulation of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrain.mcgill.ca\/flash\/i\/i_01\/i_01_cr\/i_01_cr_ana\/i_01_cr_ana.html#2\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">autonomic nervous system<\/span><\/a> by frontal regions of the brain (such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrain.mcgill.ca\/flash\/i\/i_12\/i_12_cr\/i_12_cr_con\/i_12_cr_con.html\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">anterior cingulate cortex<\/span><\/a>) than people who had simply relaxed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/104\/43\/17152.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"a_exp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/a_exp.gif\" alt=\"a_exp\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" \/><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2009\/05\/15\/0904031106.abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"a_exp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/a_lien.gif\" alt=\"a_exp\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" \/> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Central and autonomic nervous system interaction is altered by short-term meditation<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/psychcentral.com\/news\/2007\/10\/09\/body-mind-training-lowers-stress\/1386.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"i_lien\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/i_lien.gif\" alt=\"i_lien\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" \/><span style=\"color: #008080;\"> Body-Mind Training Lowers Stress<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a study published in 2007, people who practiced a method of meditation\u00a0known as Integrative Body-Mind Training, or IBMT, for five days showed better attention and better ability to manage stress and its harmful effects than people in a control group who were given only relaxation training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[41,42,43,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}