Mindful meditation reduces stress, says study
Posted on: 29/Jan/2017 3:30:38 PM
New research from the Georgetown University Medical Center has said that mindfulness meditation significantly reduced stress-hormone and inflammatory responses to a stressful situation. The study was published in journal of Psychiatry Research.
Speaking about this, the authors of the study said, We found that anxiety disorder patients had sharply reduced stress-hormone and inflammatory responses to a stressful situation after taking a mindfulness meditation course. Mindfulness meditation training is a relatively inexpensive and low-stigma treatment approach, and these findings strengthen the case that it can improve resilience to stress. We were testing the patients` resilience because that`s really the ultimate question--can we make people handle stress better. The findings indicate that control group showed modest rises on the second test compared to the first, suggesting a worsening of their anxiety from having to endure the test again.
