Wildmind Meditation News
Feb 19, 2012
Brain scans prove Eastern philosophies can be effective in treating mental illness
Erica Crompton, Daily Mail: Meditation is sitting around trying to think about nothing and letting out the occasional ‘ommmm’.
They do lots of it in India and in parts of Islington where they eat granola, too. OK, those are sweeping statements but you catch my drift.
I’m open-minded, but if you had asked me a few years ago whether I believed meditation could be an effective treatment for serious mental illness, I would have laughed. However, that is exactly what some of Britain’s mental health experts now believe.
It has been almost a decade since I was first diagnosed with paranoid psychosis, a …
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