13 minutes of meditation a day A study that shows the profound effects on mood, anxiety, fatigue, attention, working memory and recognition memory as a result of 13 min daily meditation for 8 weeks. From the study: Discussion Here we report that relative to a podcast-listening control group, 8 but not 4 weeks of a daily 13-min meditation resulted in decreased negative mood states including decreases in mood disturbance, anxiety, and fatigue scores, enhanced attention (as measured by the Stroop Task), working memory (as measured by the N-Back Task) and recognition memory (as measured by the recognition component of the Mnemonic Similarity Task), a decrease in the behavioral anxiety response to the TSST and... Abstract We randomized subjects (ages of 18–45) who were non-experienced meditators into either a 13-min daily guided meditation session or a 13-min daily podcast listening session (control group) for a total duration of 8 weeks. We examined the effects of the daily meditation practice relative to podcast listening on mood, prefrontal and hippocampal functioning, baseline cortisol levels, and emotional regulation using the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST). Compared to our control group, we found that 8 but not 4 weeks of brief, daily meditation decreased negative mood state and enhanced attention, working memory, and recognition memory as well as decreased state anxiety scores on the TSST. Furthermore, we report that meditation-induced changes in emotional regulation are more strongly linked to improved affective state than improved cognition. Conducted by New York University, Center for Neural Science and Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Center for Transformative Research on Health Behaviors #Leverage Your Biology