How Meditation Affects Our Brain?

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Meditation And its Effects on Our Brain

• How Meditation Affects Our Brain?

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INTRODUCTION

• Meditation is an art. It is the delicate process
  of letting go of all your wandering thoughts, the
  efforts to relax into your true nature, which is
  love, joy, and peace. Both spirituality and
  science back the amazing benefits of meditation.
  Meditation has the power of transforming your
  life for better, lets discuss how significantly
  meditation can change our brain.

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Here is a list of Meditation that Affects Brain
Health

• Mindfulness Meditation
• Yoga Meditation
• Chakra Meditation
• Loving Kindness Meditation (Metta Meditation)
• Transcendental Meditation
• Guided Meditation
• Vipassana Meditation (Sayagyi U Ba Khin Tradition)

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Slows Down the Aging of Brain

• Meditators develop the power of preserving the
  aging brain. Long term meditators retain the
  grey matter volume as compared to those who dont
  meditate.

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Reduction of Activity in Me Centre

• Meditation decrease activity in default mode
  network which is responsible for your wandering
  mind and distractions. Meditators find it easy to
  focus and concentrate as they can control their
  mind from wandering.

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Meditation is the New Antidepressant

• Meditation has been proven to reduce anxiety and
  depression to a significant amount. Meditation is
  more like an active brain training, which helps
  in increasing awareness and mindfulness and hence
  reduces stress.

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Volume Change in key areas of Brain

• Meditation can effectively change the structure
  of brain, it increases cortical thickness hence
  increases learning and memorization abilities. It
  also accounts for decreased cell volume in
  amygdala which is responsible for stress and
  anxiety hence meditation can change our emotional
  perception too.

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Improve Concentration and Attention
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75
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Meditators find it very easy to concentrate or
focus on things which the non meditators
definitely lack. It ultimately improves the
cognitive skills of the meditator. Meditation is
more about finding the strong focus of attention
hence no doubt meditation makes it easy to stay
focused.
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Reduced Social Anxiety
Meditation helps in reducing social anxiety by
reducing the stress level of the person, studies
have found that meditation has brought changes in
brain regions involved in attention .
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Great Help in Addiction

• No other addiction can bother you when meditation
  becomes your addiction, people who learn
  mindfulness find it easy to quit their smoking or
  other addictive habits. Meditation helps by
  decoupling the state of craving, hence one feels
  reduced urge of smoking .

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Conclusion

• Whether you're looking to reduce stress or find
  spiritual enlightenment or are looking for
  increased focus or concentration, meditation has
  it all for you. However, meditation is not a
  thing to force on you. It is all about comfort
  and relaxation. You will be amazed to see how
  magnanimous transformation meditation brings to
  our lives. So start early and become part of
  eternal bliss.

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