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Residential Meditation Retreats: A Promise of Sustainable Well-Being?

Selvaraj Giridharan
Cureus Summary & key facts 2024 2 citations

Residential meditation retreats are live-in programs of intensive meditation, mindfulness, and intentional rest. Reviews and studies report reduced stress, anxiety, and depression and some physical changes (for example, lower inflammatory markers and a 3% average weight drop in one study). Some benefits lasted weeks after the retreat, but the evidence…

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