Mindfulness shown to mediate changes in anxiety.

Marines receive mindfulness training which can affect the body’s response to stress.

Meditation Programs for Psychological Stress and Well-being. Goyal et al.

Nondirective meditation activates default mode network and areas associated with memory retrieval and emotional processing. Xu et al.

Mindfulness Interventions with Youth: A Meta-Analysis. Zoogman, Goldberg, Hoyt, Miller

Effects of mindful-attention and compassion meditation training on amygdala response to emotional stimuli in an ordinary, non-meditative state. Desbordes et al.

Mindfulness practice leads to increases in regional brain gray matter density. Hölzel et al.

Mindfulness meditation improves cognition: Evidence of brief mental training. Zeidana et al.

Meditate to create: the impact of focused-attention and open-monitoring training on convergent and divergent thinking. Colzato et al.

Neural correlates of mindfulness meditation-related anxiety relief. Fadel Zeidana, et al.

The Effect of Mindfulness-Based Therapy on Anxiety and Depression: A Meta-Analytic Review. Hofmann, Sawyer, Witt, Oh