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Mindfulness: 4 reasons why mindful meditation should be one of your 2018 New Year resolutions

This New Year, make mindfulness your New Year resolution.

Written by Editorial Team | Updated : December 15, 2017 4:55 PM IST

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Meditation And Mindfulness

There’s plenty to benefit from wellbeing practices such as meditation and mindfulness. A 2021 study conducted by IIIT-Hyderabad and the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, found that 30 minutes of guided meditation done for six months significantly increased grey matter over the frontal brain regions responsible for control of attention and decision-making and over the left hippocampus that is responsible for memory in patients with mild Alzheimer’s.

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Natural Antidepressants

Good as anti-depressent: A study published in The Lancet says that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) could provide an alternative non-drug treatment for people who do not wish to continue long-term antidepressant treatment. Mindfullness changes the way people think and feel about their experiences. When patients with depression practiced mindfulness while continuing their antidepressant medication it reduced the risk of relapse in depression.

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Focus

Good for increasing focus: Researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison found that heavy media multi-taskers (like people who text while watching TV or listen to music) become more attentive to tasks than their low multi-tasker counterparts after meditation. Previous studies have shown that people who most often let several types of media overlap can be distracted in the moment, but also score poorly on tests that assess attention even when the media sources are absent.