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University of Montreal

Study finds Zen meditation alleviates pain

Montreal, February 3, 2009 – Zen meditation – a centuries-old practice that can provide mental, physical and emotional balance – may reduce pain according to Universite de Montreal researchers. A new study in the January edition of Psychosomatic Medicine reports that Zen meditators have lower pain sensitivity both in and out of a meditative state compared to non-meditators.

Joshua A. Grant, a doctoral student in the Department of Physiology, co-authored the paper with Pierre Rainville, a professor and researcher at the Universite de Montreal and it's affiliated Institut universitaire de geriatrie de Montreal. The...

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