‘A brain changing’

Meditation forge new neural connections

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

<br /> Meditation forge new neural connections

Meditation and mental discipline can change the mode of working of the brain. A meditation by Buddhist monks allowed to reach unusual levels of consciousness through the creation of neural connections that do not exist in individuals who do not usually do contemplative practices.

So researchers have proven that the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) has since 1992 undertaken a collaborative study with the Dalai Lama and other Buddhist monks highly skilled in the art of meditation.

The latest results of this study, neuroscientists led by Richard Davidson and Antoine Lutz, have been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences’.

So far the phenomena of inner peace and serenity gained through meditation is interpreted using metaphysical forces. Today, through this study, the effects of these practices have been ‘translated’ the language of science. (more…)

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