{"id":890,"date":"2016-02-05T10:28:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T10:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/?p=890"},"modified":"2016-02-05T10:28:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T10:28:23","slug":"harvard-medical-school-what-meditation-can-do-for-your-mind-mood-and-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/2016\/02\/05\/harvard-medical-school-what-meditation-can-do-for-your-mind-mood-and-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Medical School: What meditation can do for your mind, mood, and health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.health.harvard.edu\/newsletters\/harvard_womens_health_watch\/2014\/august\"> <em>Harvard Women\u2019s Health\u00a0Watch<\/em> <\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"e-content entry-content\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.health.harvard.edu\/media\/content\/images\/W0814f-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><small>Image: Thinkstock<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>Taking a few minutes to focus your mind each day can reduce stress, pain, depression, and\u00a0more.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t see or touch stress, but you can feel its effects on your mind and body. In the short term, stress quickens your heart rate and breathing and increases your blood pressure. When you\u2019re constantly under stress, your adrenal glands overproduce the hormone cortisol. Overexposure to this hormone can affect the function of your brain, immune system, and other organs. Chronic stress can contribute to headaches, anxiety, depression, heart disease, and even premature\u00a0death.<\/p>\n<p>For more, click this link:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>http:\/\/www.health.harvard.edu\/staying-healthy\/what-meditation-can-do-for-your-mind-mood-and-health-?utm_source=facebook&#038;utm_medium=socialmedia&#038;utm_campaign=100415kr2&#038;utm_content=pre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard Women\u2019s Health\u00a0Watch Image: Thinkstock Taking a few minutes to focus your mind each day can reduce stress, pain, depression, and\u00a0more. You can\u2019t see or touch stress, but you can feel its effects on your mind and body. In the short term, stress quickens your heart rate and breathing and increases your blood pressure. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3878,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[295525],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-erpings-writings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}