We’ve discussed some of the benefits of meditation, including how it can help you at work and relieve chronic pain and stress, but new research shows that the mental benefits are much broader and can be achieved in as little as eight weeks of even short (but regular) meditation.
In a study published in the journal Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, researchers both reinforced previous research that indicated that regular meditation (or other “mindfulness exercises”) can produce measurable changes in the areas of the brain associated with empathy, memory, and sense of self.