Mindfulness Meditation Improves Sex
A new study suggests that mindfulness meditation can help quiet the mental chatter that often prevents women from fully enjoying sex.My Healthy News Daily reports on the study published in the November/December issue of the journal Psychosomatic Medicine.
About half of the participants in the study took a 12-week meditation course. Here's how it went down:
All participants were shown a series of photos, some of them erotic, to gauge their reaction time in feeling "calm," "excited" or "aroused."Namaste to that!Published noviembre 15, 2011 at 1:00 PM
"Rather than feeling it, they get caught up in their heads," said the study's lead author, Gina Silverstein, who was a student at Brown University in Rhode Island at the time of the study. "It's impressive how mindful meditation can increase self-compassion, decrease anxiety and improve attention."
At the study's start, women in both groups took longer to report how sexual slides made them feel, compared with how long it took men. But women who took the mindful meditation course became significantly faster at registering their body's responses — called "interoceptive awareness" — to sexual stimuli.
"We need to let go of so much of the self-judgment we have in our daily lives," Silverstein said. "There are so many people who are so hard on [themselves], or are dealing with depression. It's great how introducing mindfulness meditation can help with so many issues across the board."
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