Meditation is an age-old practice that has been used to quiet the mind and attain a higher spiritual experience. In the recent past, new findings show that meditation is beneficial to the elderly in a number of great ways. More and more doctors now believe that meditation is one of the best tools for mental, emotional and physical health of the elderly. Here, we look at the top five Benefits of Meditation for the Elderly: Improves Memory Meditation activates the hippocampus and the frontal lobe areas of the brain, which serve the role of maintaining both long term and short term memory. Continuous meditative exercise means a better long and short term memory recall that includes retrieving long lost memories. Meditation also affords the elderly […] Read More