Meditation Can Change The Brain - Meditation
March 28th, 2008 | by admin |Meditation can affect certain brain regions and make people more compassionate, kind, and loving. A study by University of Wisconsin-Madison proved that meditation makes people more sensitive towards other people.
Scientists examined 16 Tibetan monks who had at least 10000 hours of meditation, and 16 volunteers with no meditation experience. They used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan brain for changes. Brain regions responsible for emotions were significantly changed after so called ‘compassion meditation’.
Two weeks before brain scanning the volunteers was trained to compassion meditation techniques by experienced monks. They were taught to concentrate>compassion meditation.
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