The 6 Best Things You Can Do for Your Body
Science shows that small changes (and a little fun) are all it takes to improve your health drastically. We talked to prominent doctors, crunched the data and found a few high-payoff tweaks that you can start today.
Meditate
"I used to have a difficult time meditating. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't clear my head. Even the master Deepak Chopra tried to teach me, but it seemed my mind was too cluttered. Then I met Dr. Herbert Benson, who founded the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He gave me a valuable piece of advice: Initially, the key isn't to make your mind go blank, but to focus on a single thing that you personally find calming. For me it's the word gentle, because it evokes all sorts of calming images, like running water and beach scenes. Once I start focusing on that word, my mind begins to clear. I can now meditate for up to 15 minutes."
—Sanjay Gupta, MD, neurosurgeon and CNN chief medical correspondent
—Sanjay Gupta, MD, neurosurgeon and CNN chief medical correspondent
From the May 2015 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine