<blockquote>'Practitioners have been attesting to it for years, and now medical science is waking up to the idea that meditation really does have health benefits. A new study, published in the journal
Psychoneuroendocrinology, has discovered specific molecular changes in the body after a period of mindful meditation.'
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Meditation changes gene expression, study shows, December 10, 2013</blockquote>
'..the therapeutic potential of mindfulness-based interventions..'<blockquote>'The researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Institute of Biomedical Research in Barcelona, Spain found subjects who partook of 8-hour intensive mindfulness meditation showed significant molecular changes.'
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'The regulation of HDACs and inflammatory pathways may represent some of the mechanisms underlying the therapeutic potential of mindfulness-based interventions. Our findings set the foundation for future studies to further assess meditation strategies for the treatment of chronic inflammatory conditions.'
- Perla Kaliman, co-author of the study.
'Our genes are quite dynamic in their expression and these results suggest that the calmness of our mind can actually have a potential influence on their expression.'
- Dr. Richard J. Davidson of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds. (
Source, January 30, 2014)</blockquote>
Context<blockquote>
(The Emerging Science of Consciousness) - The Science of the Mind Body connectionStudies Show Nurture at Least as Important as Nature - By Joerg Blech(Open Source Medication) - To Heal - '..energy is critical to an understanding of how your cells work.'(Haptonomy) - '..how affectivity shapes the human being in its being and essence throughout life.' - Dr. Catherine Dolto'We Have Learned Nothing from the Genome' - Venter(In The Electric Universe) Open Source Infrastructure, beginning of the Enterprise Nervous System (ENS)Why Bad Science Is Like Bad Religion - Dr. Rupert Sheldrake</blockquote>