Practicing meditation has long been felt to have positive effects on your mental well-being, and now there is research to support the physiological gains from daily meditation. Harvard-affiliated researchers published their findings in the January 30, 2015, issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging. Their study involved an experiment with 16 participants and a control group. The participants engaged in an 8 week-long mindfulness meditation program for weekly meetings and practiced meditation for an average of 27 minutes a day. All participants in the experimental group and in the control group received MRI brain scans two weeks before starting the study and two weeks after completing it. What the research team discovered was significant. Areas of the brain previously found to be activated during meditation in other studies showed increased density of gray-matter. Read the complete article in the Harvard Gazette:

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/01/eight-weeks-to-a-better-brain/