If you practice meditation on a daily basis, your brain does actually change.
A new study has confirmed what yoga practitioners have been claiming for centuries – meditation is the cure for (almost) everything.
So step aside chocolate and cakes, there’s a healthier way to ease up that heartache.
A new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience found that meditation increases your pain threshold by helping the brain control discomfort and emotions.
Mindfulness expert, Dr Fadel Zeidan, who has been studying the scientific benefits of meditation for 15 years, wanted to be sure that these findings weren’t just thanks to the hype around meditation. So he put the claim to test.