Mindfulness meditation changes brain structure in 8wks

• sinweiy

  12 Mar 13, 22:26

  • Jackson Peterson : Its been proven by brain scans that after only 8 weeks, ordinary people doing 45 minutes of mindfulness meditation in a sitting session, show visible growth of "grey matter" or brain cells, in the hypo-campus and also areas of the brain most associated with anxiety and negative "selfing" become inactive... great stuff!

  
  

  Mindfulness meditation training changes brain structure in eight weeks

  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110121144007.htm

  www.sciencedaily.com

  Participating in an 8-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measur...able changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress. A new study is the first to document meditation-produced changes over time in the brain's gray matter.

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• sinweiy

  18 Mar 13, 17:37

  A precis by scientist philosopher Thomas Metzinger on how the brain has created a solid belief ,perception ,model of a self ,and it doesnt know it has done this .There isnt a self
  
  http://www.philosophie.uni-mainz.de/Dateien/beingnoone2.pdf