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D I D Y O U K N O W T H A T In the next years, other

researchers gathered up to
TIME Magazine reported in study this known ancient
2003 that meditation started practice, that finally seemed to

being taken seriously into become a little more clear from
account for its medical a scientifically standpoint too.
purposes in th 1960s when B.K.

Anand, a researcher in India It became so trendy, that
'found that yogis could eventually, even the Beatles

meditate themselves into were into it. Especially into
trances so deep that they didn’t Transcendental Meditation.

react when hot test tubes were
pressed against their arms.' Of course, the hippie

movement welcomed
In a different study, Dr. Herbert meditation with open arms and
Benson from Harvard, found in it was during this time ('60s and

1967 that people that were '70s) that many meditation and
meditating used 17% less mindfulness centers started to

oxygen, had lowered heart rates open up to the public.
and produced brain waves that

were found to be beneficial to
sleep quality.