Students Who Meditate Are Better Off

Students who meditate are better off when it comes to dealing with stress in college, according to a new research at American University.

The study pointed out that such students also remain less fatigued and have more "integrated" brains.

According to the researchers, transcendental Meditation may be an effective non-medicinal tool for students to buffer themselves against the intense stresses of college life.

Titled ‘Effects of Transcendental Meditation practice on brain functioning and stress reactivity in college students’, the research is the first random assignment study of the effects of meditation practice on brain and physiological functioning in college students.

For the study, the researchers roped in 50 students from American University and other Washington, D.C., area universities.

They then probed the effects of 10-weeks of Transcendental Meditation (TM) practice on "Brain Integration Scale" scores (broadband frontal coherence, power ratios, and preparatory brain responses), electrodermal habituation to a stressful stimulus, and sleepiness in the participants. (More)

Source: Times of India