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Definition: "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance "
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15 minutes of meditation has about the same psychological effects as a day off
Study
During the experiment, the students filled in a questionnaire daily. For example, the researchers knew how good [Positive affect] or bad [Negative affect] the students felt, and also to what extent the students let themselves get carried away by their emotions [Nonreacting].
The students gave their answers in the form of a score between 1 [very bad] and 100 [very good].
Results
The test subjects felt even better on days off than on working days with meditation. Regarding their emotional state, on days off it did not matter whether the subjects were meditating or not.
It is striking that meditating on days off made the test subjects have less control of their emotions.
Conclusion
"Vacation was associated with even greater well-being and positive emotion, as well as even lower negative emotion, though meditation was also associated with beneficial effects on all of these variables."
"As we playfully note in our paper, 'If you are pressed for time, sit on a meditation cushion; if you have more time, sit on a beach chair.' Importantly, this advice only holds for brief meditation practice for beginning meditators; long-term meditation has been shown to have more dramatic, cumulative effects."
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