Articles by Jordan O'Malley

How a 7-Day Meditation Retreat Can Rewire the Brain to Produce Psychedelic-Like Neural Connectivity soul

How a 7-Day Meditation Retreat Can Rewire the Brain to Produce Psychedelic-Like Neural Connectivity

Meditation has long been linked to lower stress, sharper attention, and better emotional control. A 2025 study, published in Communications Biology, takes that idea much further. Researchers found that people attending an intensive seven-day meditation retreat showed major changes in brain connectivity, blood biology, and self-reported mental experiences. Some of those changes resembled patterns researchers […]

Jordan O'Malley August 30, 2026
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