<P> A 2010 review of the literature on spirituality and performance in organizations found an increase in corporate meditation programs . </P> <P> As of 2016 around a quarter of U.S. employers were using stress reduction initiatives . The goal was to help reduce stress and improve reactions to stress . Aetna now offers its program to its customers . Google also implements mindfulness, offering more than a dozen meditation courses, with the most prominent one, "Search Inside Yourself", having been implemented since 2007 . General Mills offers the Mindful Leadership Program Series, a course which uses a combination of mindfulness meditation, yoga and dialog with the intention of developing the mind's capacity to pay attention . </P> <P> Research on the processes and effects of meditation is a subfield of neurological research . Modern scientific techniques, such as fMRI and EEG, were used to observe neurological responses during meditation . Since the 1950s, hundreds of studies on meditation have been conducted, though the overall methological quality of meditation research is poor, yielding unreliable results . </P> <P> Since the 1970s, clinical psychology and psychiatry have developed meditation techniques for numerous psychological conditions . Mindfulness practice is employed in psychology to alleviate mental and physical conditions, such as reducing depression, stress, and anxiety . Mindfulness is also used in the treatment of drug addiction . Studies demonstrate that meditation has a moderate effect to reduce pain . There is insufficient evidence for any effect of meditation on positive mood, attention, eating habits, sleep, or body weight . </P>

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