Study: meditation boosts health
The biggest difference was in mental health, where long-term meditators were more than 10% better off than the rest of the population. Image: shironosov/iStockphoto The experience of 'mental silence' is linked with better health outcomes and greater wellbeing according to a University of Sydney study.The area of greatest difference was in mental health, where long-term meditators, with a minimum of two years of regular practice, were more than 10% better off than the general population."We found that the health and wellbeing profile of people who had meditated for at least two years was significantly higher in the majority of health and wellbeing categories when compared to the Australian population," said Dr Ramesh Manocha, Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Psychiatry, Sydney Medical School, who led the research.He worked with Professor Deborah Black and Dr Leigh Wilson from the Faculty of Health Sciences."Most markedly there was a robust relationship between the frequency of...