Brain Meditation

Brain-Stillness

How does meditation impact brain plasticity?

Brain plasticity teaches us that the brain is constantly evolving. 70% of our brain cells change every day. Meditation changes the brain in many ways.

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Brain-Reflection

Reflection Improves Learning

Earlier this morning I was watching a lecture on positive psychology by former Harvard professor Tal Ben-Sahar. During each day of the class Sahar allocated two or so minutes of complete silence. This is all done in the name of embracing stillness and introspection, a practice that Sahar finds extraordinarily important in improving one’s health and well-being.

Within the lecture he cites a study done by MIT Professors David Foster and Matthew Wilson, one which Sahar found rather convincing regarding the importance of reflection in our everyday lives and specifically its effects on our cognitive abilities.

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Light

Change Your Brain in 8 Weeks

Most meditators have known something that scientists are beginning to verify and accept. Meditation changes your brain for the better.

A recent study has found that those who meditated for about 30 minutes a day for eight weeks had quantifiable changes in their brain.

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