An MD Explains Your Brain On Meditation (Expert Article)

A summary of the current advances in the effects of meditation on the brain was published in a post in The Yoga Blog.

An MD Explains Your Brain On Meditation (Expert Article)

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A more elaborate description of the research was given in the previous post, Meditation and the Brain 2013.

Dramatic changes in genes and immune factors, as well as decrease of mortality from cardiac disease highlight this years research. But, many other positive health and emotional effects were proven.

In addition to showing the effects from Compassion, Mindfulness, and Transcendental Meditations, Tai Chi and Yoga, the post discusses advanced meditation. Advanced meditation has even stronger effects but the mechanisms are not clear. The immune findings begin to explain some of the many physical benefits. Analysis of the effects of deep sleep, dreaming, and psychedelics might help explain subjective states described in advanced meditation and well as increased physical benefits.

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Are you aware that the bulk of current scientific knowledge has been discovered in the past ten years? And that many of the most original results have appeared in the last year? Can you imagine where we will be ten years from now? This blog is intended to be an exploration of a paradigm shift I expect to see in the scientific understanding of the connection between mind and the material world. Posts will look at scientific discoveries, as they appear, in the fields of neuroscience, animal behavior, microbiology, molecular biology, evolution and biophysics, and explore their relevance to the emerging view of mind as an integral aspect of nature.

Jon Lieff, MD

Post in The Yoga Blog – “MD Explains Your Brain on Meditation”

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Post in The Yoga Blog – “MD Explains Your Brain on Meditation”