Meditation, at its very root, involves engineering the mind to take it to a more desirable place than it would naturally go given other circumstances. Outside influencers are filtered out, and the mind bypasses the many stressors pulling at its fabric. So can meditation actually slow the effects of cognitive decline? Many researchers think so. In a seven-year study published in Medical … [Read more...] about Mindfulness and Aging: How Meditation Can Prevent Cognitive Decline