Meditation Modifies Brain Signals

If you think meditation is just something practiced by religious groups in order to commune with the Higher Being, studies will have to make you rethink again.

A recent research published in the Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging suggests that individuals who meditate benefit from the changes experienced by the brain. Specifically, the study says that people who meditate for a duration of around 30 minutes in a single day for eight weeks had measurable modifications in the gray-matter density in the brain. These gray areas are linked with sense of self, empathy and stress as well as memory.

Lead researcher Britta Hölzel of the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School simply related, “The main idea is to use different objects to focus one’s attention, and it could be a focus on sensations of breathing, or emotions or thoughts, or observing any type of body sensations. But it’s about bringing the mind back to the here and now, as opposed to letting the mind drift.”

Apart from that, previous studies have also showed that meditation reduced blood pressure and increased attention span.

Source: SeerPress.com