This site is designed to provide you with techniques which will create a new level of calm and focus in your life. The exercises contained on these pages are secular practices which have practical application in our daily lives. The benefits of meditation are available for everybody, regardless of your belief system.
brain fitness tip: meditation
This is possibly the ultimate brain fitness tip. So few of us make the effort to explore meditation or to practice it regularly, yet it can have such a profound and positive impact on the brain. Thanks to new advances in neuro-imaging technologies, scientists are now able to observe the effects of meditation on the mind, and the results are staggering. Prolonged meditation has the capacity to physically transform the organization of your brain and can empower you to become more attentive & relaxed, among other things (like eliminating bad habits and negative thought patterns)
But don’t just take my word for it! Check out these links to learn more about the myriad benefits of meditation.
Meditation Sharpens the Mind
How Thinking Can Change the Brain
Buddha’s Brain
An Interview w/Richard Davidson
Clear Mind Meditation Techniques
Benefits of Meditation
meditation and neuroplasticity
if you are truly interested in changing the way your mind works, there are few more effective tools than meditation. several different research studies have shown that this ancient practice can physically transform the structure of your brain and by extension your mental thought patterns. Effective meditation can unlearn bad habits while laying down the groundwork for good ones. I have read a whole book on this topic and it’s fascinating, this is not some kooky pseudoscience stuff but the real deal. the structure of your brain is a relic of the way that you choose to use it, and by conscious efforts, you have the ability to reprogram yourself in ways that you might not imagine. Here’s a few articles you might want to check out on the topic:
Meditation and neuroplasticity
Neuroplasticity 101
The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force, by: Jeffrey M. Schwartz, M.D. and Sharon Begley
