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15 Minutes to Less Stress, More Focus, and Better Health (There's an App for That)

June 17, 2015 Erik Till
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What if there was an app that could help you reduce stress, increase your attention span, boost your immunity, sleep better, forgive more easily, appreciate life and those around you more, be more creative, be more happy, and get more done?  Sounds too good to be true, right?  But there is an app for that - it’s called Headspace.  This isn’t an exaggeration or woo-woo pseudoscience stuff either; this is the real deal backed by many years of research and confirmed by recent advancements in neuroimaging.  And despite how relatively new Headspace is, it is simply a tool to guide the user in a practice that has actually been around for thousands of years - mindfulness meditation.

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In Tech, Lifestyle Tags Erik Till, stress, sleep, Headspace, headspace, neuroplasticity, neuroimaging, meditation, mindfulness, divergent thinking, fight or flight, rest and digest, adrenaline, cortisol, Scientific American, health, prefrontal cortex, Sara Lazar, amygdala, telomerase, aging, anti-aging, podcast, podcasts, Andy Puddicombe, transcendental
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