Meditation Coming Back -- And Not Just for Baby Boomers
Do you meditate ? I know, I know. It calls to mind girls with long dirty hair wearing love beads, VW vans and the sharp acrid smell of mj everywhere. It's what the Baby Boomers thought they discovered. And now it's being rediscovered by, well, just about everyone, and for a really good reason. It turns out doing it has actually proven to be good for your health. According to medicalnewstoday.com, it can actually change your genes -- or how they're expressed, or activated. A new study has found " specific molecular changes in the body after a period of mindful meditation," the Web site reports. You may also have heard of mindfulness, which can be part of meditation, but we'll get to that later. For the study, researchers compared the effects of a day of intensive mindful-meditation in a group of experienced meditators with a group of untrained subjects who enjoyed a day of quiet, non-meditative activities, medicalnewstoday.com notes. " Aft...