Science News: Mindfulness Meditation Changes Brain’s Gray Matter, part 2

Even the New York Times has gotten in on the act.  Today they published an article titled How Meditation May Change the Brain on their Well Blog.  Hasn’t quite hit the main paper yet, but it’s still the Times.

And The Atlantic Monthly quotes the NYT’s report in their Cliché Watch Blog.  Erik Hayden, author of Meditation is Good for You — Not Sure Why, presents what appears to be an unnecessarily snarky spin on the story.  He characterizes meditation as “thinking about nothing” so that tells you where he’s coming from.  I have to admit I’m curious about what Mr. Hayden finds so cliché, but apparently it’s not sarcasm or cynicism.