Meditation research.

Harvard Neuroscientist: Meditation Changes Your Brain.


This is a deeply insightful article summarizing what Sara Lazar and her team found when conducting research on the impact of meditation.

To visualize achieve your goals is a form of meditation. It involves actively thinking, visualizing, and clearly imaging you achieving your goals. You not only visualize images but the emotions and other senses associated with the success. When you effectively visualize, it calms, gives you confidence, and prepares you for success.


Harvard neuroscientist: Meditation not only reduces stress, here’s how it changes your brain

Lazar: The first study looked at long term meditators vs a control group. We found long-term meditators have an increased amount of gray matter in the insula and sensory regions, the auditory and sensory cortex. Which makes sense. When you’re mindful, you’re paying attention to your breathing, to sounds, to the present moment experience, and shutting cognition down. It stands to reason your senses would be enhanced.

We also found they had more gray matter in the frontal cortex, which is associated with working memory and executive decision making.

So the first question was, well, maybe the people with more gray matter in the study had more gray matter before they started meditating. So we did a second study.

Lazar: We found differences in brain volume after eight weeks in five different regions in the brains of the two groups. In the group that learned meditation, we found thickening in four regions…

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