Research participants who had undergone a 15-minute “mindfulness” exercise, focusing on breathing and judgment-free thoughts, were subsequently nearly twice as likely as others to inaccurately recall having seen a word (“trash”) on a list, says a team led by Brent M. Wilson of the University of California San Diego. This and other experiments suggest that the judgment-free thinking that is part of mindfulness meditation may make it more difficult for people to decide whether past experiences were real or only imagined, the researchers say.
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