Meditation has been shown by research to be very useful at improving mood and concentration. Now some new research by Fadel Zeidan and colleagues (published in Consciousness & Cognition, April 2nd) has shown that only a few days training in a meditation technique called "mindfulness" is enough to signifcantly improve cognitive ability.

Particularly of note were the differing results on a "computer adaptive n-back task," where participants would have to correctly remember if a stimulus had been shown two steps earlier in a sequence. If the participant got the answer right, the computer would react by increasing the speed of the subsequent stimulus, further increasing the difficulty of the task. The meditation-trained group averaged aproximately 10 consecutive correct answers, while the listening group averaged approximately one.

Learning this technique could substantially improve your exam grades by decreasing anxiety and improving your ability to think more clearly. To find out how to meditate click the link below

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