After five 20-minute sessions led by an instructor, most participants noticed a significant reduction in stress, anxiety, depression, anger and fatigue.
Research shows that meditation can reduce the symptoms of anxiety disorders and improve attention, memory, immunity, emotional control, cognitive performances, school performance and creativity.
According to research from a Texas Tech University faculty member, Integrative Body-Mind Training (IBMT) – 身心靈綜合運動 – a meditation programme developed in China in the 1990s – affects two parts of the brain in particular, the anterior cingulate cortex and adjacent medial prefrontal cortex, which play roles in attention and memory on the one hand and decision-making, empathy and emotion on the other.
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