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How Meditation Changes the Brain

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Dr Carolyn Dean
Dr Carolyn Dean

Meditation is a complex and conscious mental process. Meditation is akin to training the mind to improve its own core psychological capabilities, including attentional and emotional self-regulation.

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Changes the Brain Dr Carolyn Dean is a medical doctor and naturopath. She has authored and co-authored over 35 books H o w M e d i t a t i o n
2 How Meditation Changes the Brain Dr Carolyn Dean Meditation is a complex and conscious mental process. Meditation is akin to training the mind to improve its own core psychological capabilities, including attentional and emotional self-regulation. Though the Western scientific corpus has long ignored meditation - perhaps thanks to the practice’s lingering links with spirituality - there have however been substantial recent findings that suggest meditation greatly enhances brain plasticity.
3 Brain Changes Meditation causes significant physiological changes. One of these changes is in the quantity of cerebral blood flow during meditation. One study found that the blood flow in experienced meditators was significantly higher compared to non-meditators in the prefrontal cortex, parietal cortex, thalamus, putamen, caudate, and midbrain. Focused vs Open Focused attention meditation is the mental process where a subject concentrates all of their attention singularly on a small object, or their own breath. The goal is to remain undistracted by external stimuli. Open monitoring meditation, on the other hand, centers around observing everything within and external to the body. The goal is to observe without judgement, and is met through constant monitoring of thoughts, emotions, and feelings. Both focused and open meditations provide tangible benefits to the brain as it refocuses and adapts its neural pathways. This is vital to understanding the brain pillar of total body wellness, and shows how it is possible to take back control of those synapses.
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How Meditation Changes the Brain

  • 1. Changes the Brain Dr Carolyn Dean is a medical doctor and naturopath. She has authored and co-authored over 35 books H o w M e d i t a t i o n
  • 2. 2 How Meditation Changes the Brain Dr Carolyn Dean Meditation is a complex and conscious mental process. Meditation is akin to training the mind to improve its own core psychological capabilities, including attentional and emotional self-regulation. Though the Western scientific corpus has long ignored meditation - perhaps thanks to the practice’s lingering links with spirituality - there have however been substantial recent findings that suggest meditation greatly enhances brain plasticity.
  • 3. 3 Brain Changes Meditation causes significant physiological changes. One of these changes is in the quantity of cerebral blood flow during meditation. One study found that the blood flow in experienced meditators was significantly higher compared to non-meditators in the prefrontal cortex, parietal cortex, thalamus, putamen, caudate, and midbrain. Focused vs Open Focused attention meditation is the mental process where a subject concentrates all of their attention singularly on a small object, or their own breath. The goal is to remain undistracted by external stimuli. Open monitoring meditation, on the other hand, centers around observing everything within and external to the body. The goal is to observe without judgement, and is met through constant monitoring of thoughts, emotions, and feelings. Both focused and open meditations provide tangible benefits to the brain as it refocuses and adapts its neural pathways. This is vital to understanding the brain pillar of total body wellness, and shows how it is possible to take back control of those synapses.
  • 4. visiting the blog of Learn more by Dr. Carolyne Dean