Mindfulness & Meditation Makes You 'Tough'

Improves moods of soldiers before they go to Iraq

By MindBodyGreen
Even the military is on the mindfulness and meditation bandwagon.  Is this a good thing? Here's what the study found:

The study found that mindfulness training, which teaches people how to stay alert and in the moment without becoming emotional (giving them a kind of "mental armor"), improved the moods of U.S. Marines preparing for deployment to Iraq. Practicing mindfulness also improved a type of memory that enables people to complete complex mental tasks.

You can read the full article at LiveScience.
Published February 22, 2010 at 9:30 AM