Meditation in the Press

Articles about London Meditation Centre:

Positive Thought
Brummell Magazine
October, 2007 (Click to read the article)

How to Seek Enlightenment
AsiaSpa Magazine
September/October, 2007 (Click to read the article)

Take a screen break - in the lotus position
The Financial Times
10 June, 2007 (Click to read the article)

Teaching Meditation: A publishing exec who made a business out of stress management
The Guardian
29 July, 2006 (Click to read the article)

Press clips about Meditation:
Increasingly the popular press is taking note of meditation and its effects.  Following are a number of articles on various studies and different techniques:

Meditation for a Sharper Memory
About.com
23 March, 2010

Meditation may boost memory, a recently published preliminary study shows. In an experiment involving a group of older adults–all of whom had some degree of memory impairment at the study’s start–researchers found that regular meditation practice helped improve blood flow to the brain.

Meditation May Boost College Students’ Learning
Study finds better concentration, lowered stress after TM sessions
Forbes.com
23 February, 2009

Meditation might help protect college students against stress and improve their ability to learn, suggests a study that examined the effects of transcendental meditation (TM) on stress reactivity and brain functioning.
Volunteers from U.S. colleges, mostly in the Washington, D.C., area, underwent physiological and psychological tests and were then randomly assigned to a TM or a control group.
Ten weeks later, the students in the TM group had higher scores on a standardized brain measurement scale and reported being less sleepy, not as jumpy and less irritable.

Meditation Finding Converts Among Western Doctors
National Geographic
1 February, 2006

Regular meditation may increase smarts and stave off aging, according to an ongoing study.  The research is one in a string of studies that suggest some time spent getting in tune with the flow of one’s breathing can complement a regimen of pills, diet, and exercise. Meditation is being prescribed for stress, anxiety, infertility, skin diseases, and other ailments.

High Blood Pressure?  Meditation May Help
New York Times
13 June, 2006

Transcendental meditation improves blood pressure and insulin resistance in heart patients, according to a placebo-controlled study carried out at an academic medical center in California.
By the end of the study, the participants in the meditation group had significantly lower blood pressure compared with participants in the control group. They also had significantly improved in measures of insulin resistance, the ability of the body to properly process insulin and blood sugar. The paper appeared yesterday in Archives of Internal Medicine.
The scientists suggest that transcendental meditation causes improvements in certain elements of the metabolic syndrome, the group of related symptoms that increase the risk of coronary heart disease and other cardiovascular problems.
“The good thing about meditation is that it has a very nice quality-of-life component,” said the senior author of the study, Dr. C. Noel Bairey Merz, professor of medicine at the University of California, at Los Angeles. “There’s no ongoing financial cost, no side effects and a lot of data to demonstrate that it has a beneficial effect.”

The Hot New Frontier of Neuroscience: Meditation
Wired Magazine
14 February, 2006

(Meditators) produced gamma waves that were 30 times as strong as the students’. In addition, larger areas of the meditators’ brains were active, particularly in the left prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for positive emotions.

Zen and the Art of Corporate Productivity
More companies are battling employee stress with meditation
Business Week
28 July, 2003

Increasingly, the overstretched and overburdened have a new answer to work lives of gunning harder for what seems like less and less: Don’t just do something — sit there. Companies increasingly are falling for the allure of meditation, too, offering free, on-site classes. They’re being won over, in part, by findings at the National Institutes of Health, the University of Massachusetts, and the Mind/Body Medical Institute at Harvard University that meditation enhances the qualities companies need most from their knowledge workers: increased brain-wave activity, enhanced intuition, better concentration, and the alleviation of the kinds of aches and pains that plague employees most.