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Does Mindfulness Meditation Really Make People Smarter?
Psychologist gi wan tang tested the link between meditation and intelligence using a specific kind of mindfulness meditation he calls integrative body mind training, or i b m t. The method stresses a state of restful alertness that allows a high awareness of body breathing and external instructions from a compact disc it also stresses a balanced state of relaxation while focusing attention. At the end of the study, those who meditated showed significantly better cognitive control than the control in 20 ten year studies. A meta analysis fought to find out if training had any long term effects. They wanted to see if far transfer could be found from brain training games like the in back. For example, verbal working memory training improves