{"id":189,"date":"2017-01-05T18:49:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T18:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sacredjourneytherapy.com\/bloggworks\/?p=189"},"modified":"2017-01-05T18:52:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T18:52:12","slug":"eight-weeks-to-a-better-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sacredjourneytherapy.com\/bloggworks\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"Eight weeks to a better brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research from Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)\u00a0 indicates that meditation has a positive and regenerating effect on our brain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the practice of meditation is associated with a sense of peacefulness and physical relaxation, practitioners have long claimed that meditation also provides cognitive and psychological benefits that persist throughout the day,\u201d says study senior author <a href=\"http:\/\/connects.catalyst.harvard.edu\/profiles\/profile\/person\/12961\">Sara Lazar<\/a> of the MGH <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.massgeneral.org\/allpsych\/psychneuro\/psychneuroimaging.asp\">Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/hms.harvard.edu\/hms\/home.asp\">Harvard Medical School<\/a> instructor in psychology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2011\/01\/eight-weeks-to-a-better-brain\/\">Click here for more information\u00a0<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research from Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)\u00a0 indicates that meditation has a positive and regenerating effect on our brain. \u201cAlthough the practice of meditation is associated with a sense of peacefulness and physical relaxation, practitioners have long claimed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sacredjourneytherapy.com\/bloggworks\/?p=189\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacredjourneytherapy.com\/bloggworks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacredjourneytherapy.com\/bloggworks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacredjourneytherapy.com\/bloggworks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacredjourneytherapy.com\/bloggworks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacredjourneytherapy.com\/bloggworks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sacredjourneytherapy.com\/bloggworks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/sacredjourneytherapy.com\/bloggworks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacredjourneytherapy.com\/bloggworks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacredjourneytherapy.com\/bloggworks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacredjourneytherapy.com\/bloggworks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}