The effect of a six-week focused meditation training on depression and anxiety symptoms in Brazilian university students with 6 and 12 months of follow-up.
Carpena MX, et al. J Affect Disord. 2018.
“BACKGROUND: Evidence shows high prevalence of depression and anxiety symptoms among university students. This study investigated whether a meditation-based program would help reducing these symptoms in this population.
“CONCLUSION: The meditation training was effective in reducing depression and anxiety symptoms, but the maintanance of these reductions only occurred for those who continued meditating. Permanent meditation programs may be an alternative for promoting mental health for university students.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30597302/
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Thanks for sharing this valuable information with us. It helps train the brain to become calmer, reduces stress, and increases feelings of self-acceptance.
You are welcome; thank you for writing! Self-acceptance seems to be so important. -Andrew