Compassion meditation may positively impact inflammatory measures relevant to health in adolescents at high risk for poor adult functioning. In my next blog, I will present results for the study’s psychosocial outcomes such as measures of anxiety and depression.While much attention has been paid to meditation practices that emphasize calming the mind, improving focused attention, or developing mindfulness, less is known about meditation practices that foster compassion. One of my research teams, however, has been investigating whether compassion meditation can affect our immune and behavioral responses to stress. We just learned that the results of our study of compassion meditation with foster care program adolescents will be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology.
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