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flickedbic
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Meditation is racking up the research; things look good. 3
#23992586 - 01/08/17 02:28 PM (7 years, 22 days ago) |
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Meditation increases the size of white matter bundles in the pre-frontal cortex in a few years.
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meditation causes actual physical changes in the gray matter of the lower brain stem. Meditation makes the gray matter grow.
In another study, scientists Giuseppe Pagoni and Milos Cekic, from the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University in Atlanta, compared the volume of gray matter in the brains of people performing Zen meditations with another group who were not meditators.
The volume of our gray matter normally reduces as we get older and this is what the scientists found in the group of non-meditators. But for the meditators, their gray matter hadn’t reduced at all with age. According to the scientists, meditation had a ‘neuroprotective’ effect (...)
(Harvard researchers found that) 2,209 genes were differently activated in long-term meditation practitioners compared with non-meditators. And even looking at novice meditators, they found that 1,561 genes were affected after only eight weeks of meditation practice. They concluded that the genetic effects of meditation may have long-term physiological consequences, one of which was a slowing down of the rate of aging. (...) A study at Massachusetts General Hospital examined the impact of the Buddhist ‘Insight’ meditation on the brain. Insight meditation is a technique of moving our attention over the body or focusing on our breathing. The study found that it caused an increase in thickness of the prefrontal cortex in the brain(...)
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/751233
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“What we see are these high-amplitude gamma-oscillations in the brain, which are indicative of plasticity”—meaning that those brains were more capable of change, for example, in theory, of becoming more resilient.
(...)meditation improved immune response to an influenza vaccine-and the subjects were not “professional” Buddhist meditators, but people who had gone through an eight-week training program in mindfulness meditation. [ /quote]
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/07/dalai-lama-neuroscience-compassion/397706/
I listen to gamma isotonic tones while studying, delta waves put my lights out, I'm yawning near immediately.
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george698
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Re: Meditation is racking up the research; things look good. [Re: flickedbic]
#23992643 - 01/08/17 02:51 PM (7 years, 22 days ago) |
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I think the very same is true by just thinking or in other word using the muscle which matters most. So is doing sport or even committing mistakes.
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beforethedawn
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Re: Meditation is racking up the research; things look good. [Re: george698]
#23993137 - 01/08/17 05:35 PM (7 years, 22 days ago) |
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Shit I meditate all the time. Some times for an hour at a time.
My brain is going to come out my nose.
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Re: Meditation is racking up the research; things look good. [Re: beforethedawn]
#23993208 - 01/08/17 06:08 PM (7 years, 22 days ago) |
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let me know if it makes a mess
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