Cognitive Benefits of Meditation Last for at Least Seven Years, Study Reveals
Anna Hunt – Researchers determined that a meditation practice can have lasting effects on cognition.
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New Research Suggests Humans Can Sense Future Events Without Clues
April McCarthy, Prevent Disease Waking Times Wouldn’t it be nice to predict future events, even if they are just ten seconds ahead? According to researchers at Northwestern University, we can do just that. Researchers already know that our subconscious minds sometimes know more than our conscious minds. Physiological measures of subconscious arousal, for instance, tend …
Inducing Higher Intelligence and Heightened Senses with Gamma Brain Waves
Anna Hunt, Staff Writer Waking Times Brainwave entrainment is a way to train the brain to synchronize to a certain frequency, such as gamma, beta, delta, theta and alpha. Each frequency matches a certain state of consciousness. For example, delta is the brainwave dominant while in an unconscious state such as sleeping; while theta and …
Vitamin D Improves Mood, Cognition and Pain Tolerance
Mae Chan, Prevent Disease Waking Times Without the sunshine vitamin, few of us would experience lives free of disease. Two new studies show that increased levels of vitamin D not only reduce the risk of developing cognitive impairments, but also improve widespread chronic pain. People with higher blood levels of vitamin D live significantly longer than people …
Is ADHD an Evolutionary Gift in a Rapidly Changing World?
It seems that a more responsible society should recognize special abilities and learn to harness and direct them to reach their full potential instead of suppressing them with drugs. Regardless, adaptation to our environment is natural and cannot be contained.