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“A study published by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2011 found that subjects who practiced meditation for an average of just twenty-seven minutes…

— Scott Stossel

“Meditation led to decreased density of the amygdala, a physical change that was correlated with subjects’ self-reported stress levels—as their amygdalae got less dense,…

— Scott Stossel

Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up.

— Philippa Perry

Science is now documenting that it's not the objects of meditation that are important, it's the process of paying attention to them - the…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

“26. Kieran C. R. Fox, “Is Meditation Associated with Altered Brain Structure? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Morphometric Neuroimaging in Meditation Practitioners,” Neuroscience…

— Daniel Goleman

“During sustained stress, the amygdala processes emotional sensory information more rapidly and less accurately, dominates hippocampal function, and disrupts frontocortical function; we’re more fearful,…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Studies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts of the…

— Oliver Sacks

Not only when one does meditation one is getting into a different realm, cognitively, but if you look at the imaging that's done on…

— Darold Treffert

The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other…

— Ramana Maharshi

Meditation is like the moon: it transforms the energy of lust into love, anger into compassion, greed into sharing, aggressiveness into receptivity, ego into…

— Rajneesh

Meditation, in the beginning, is just replacement thinking. Instead of having the usual negative things that wander around in your mind, you are replacing…

— Frederick Lenz

It may sound lovey-dovey, but there's research showing the positive effect of meditation on parts of the brain that control emotion.

— Tara Brach