Meditation Found To Increase Brain Size


	Meditation Found To Increase Brain Size

ricardom

5-13-2006 10:39 AM

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5-13-2006 11:19 AM

adamc

This is such exciting stuff. This lecture with David Lynch and some brain-meditation specialists is great.

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