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The Science Behind Meditation: Every Part Of Your Body Wins

Friday, November 9, 2012 10:01
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Meditation has been used as a method for achieving self awareness and reducing stress for thousands of years. Today, researchers are studying the effects of mindful meditation in order to understand how it affects human neurological function.

Mindfulness Opens Doors to Change

Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have mapped the underlying cognitive functions that occur during mindful meditation practice. They found that individuals who practice mindful meditation display improved abilities to develop positive social relationships with others, they have improved self regulation of their behaviors and experience lower levels of anxiety and depression.

The six neuropsychological processes triggered through mindful meditation include (1) attention regulation, (2) intention and motivation, (3) extinction and reconsolidation, (4) emotion regulation, (5)non-attachment and de-centering and (6) pro-social behaviors. These processes allow individuals to detach from unhealthy desires and emotions, while promoting positive self regulation. Individuals practicing mindful meditation are able to be less emotionally reactive to upsetting events and are also able to recover their equilibrium more quickly afterward.

Read more here: http://www.in5d.com/science-behind-meditation.html

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    Gotta love science. ‘For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction’. So there is no such thing as a purely positive or negative act. Because every positive act will result in an equally positive and negative reactions. And the same for every negative act, it gets equally negative and positive reactions. Ho hum. :lol:

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