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According to a study published in Biological Psychiatry,
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"mindfulness" or meditation, which is "focusing on what you are experiencing in the present moment," may actually change people's brain state and improve their health, rather than the placebo effect.
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A scan of the brain during meditation confirms that activity in each area is *elevated* . Specifically, the effects include improved pain tolerance and reduced anxiety and depression.
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When the brain waves of Buddhist monks were measured, high levels of alpha waves were measured. The increase in alpha waves showed a decrease in negative mood, tension, sadness, and anger in the brain.
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An eight-week meditation program in one study found that areas associated with learning ability, memory processing, and emotion regulation in the gray matter of the subjects increased,
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while the amygdala, which is associated with stress, blood pressure, and fear, decreased.
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There was a case in a Canadian school where students improved their grades by making time for morning meditation.
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Concentration is something that you acquire when you get into the habit of focusing on one thing, so meditation helps you get into the habit of concentrating.
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By measuring EEG movements, it was found that meditation reduces the movement of the amygdala. Relieving the movement of the amygdala leads to a reduction in stress.
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Research suggests that meditation may lower blood pressure, relieve symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, improve anxiety, depression, and insomnia, and improve the onset, duration, and severity of acute respiratory illnesses (such as the flu)
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Many studies have investigated the effects of meditation on disease and there is evidence that it may alleviate inflammation in patients with high blood pressure, irritable bowel syndrome, and ulcerative colitis.
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According to Daniel Goalman's "The Focus Leader," published in Harvard Buisiness Review, a collection of articles published by Harvard University in 2013, mindfulness meditation improved concentration.
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When the graduate school entrance exam scores of two groups of students, one who practiced mindfulness meditation and the other who did not, were measured, the results showed that the group of students who practiced mindfulness scored an average of 16% higher.
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According to a paper published in the American Psychological Association in 2016, the process of practicing mindfulness meditation confirmed the activation of neural circuits in the brain that govern compassion.
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When employees at a biotechnology company were given eight weeks of mindfulness meditation, the test subjects were more likely than other employees to have lowered anxiety levels
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Increased activity in areas of the brain associated with positive emotions *and their* flu shot produced more antibodies.
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An examination of the brain of the Tibetan ascetic Matieu Ricard, known as "the happiest man in the world," showed that his left prefrontal cortex was far more active than that of normal people.
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People with a relatively high degree of activation in the left prefrontal cortex reported more positive emotions such as joy, enthusiasm, and energy.
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The brains of meditation practitioners were more active in the anterior cingulate cortex than those who did not, and they performed better on tests of self-control.
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That is, the brains of meditation practitioners are able to calmly accept the object of their attention and emotions and control their behavior.
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The brains of meditation practitioners were found to have a higher density of the hippocampus, higher stress tolerance, and more ability to face difficulties than those who did not.
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A study examining whether there was a difference in emotional changes to distressing sounds before and after meditation training using the brain imaging study fMRI, found that emotional changes to distressing sounds were enhanced by meditation training.
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Study Compares Immune Function Using Flu Vaccine; Study Finds Higher Increase in Antibodies in Group That Adopted Meditation.
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Although many studies on meditation are of relatively long duration, even four days of meditation training produced physical and mental benefits.
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In a study using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), people who followed mindfulness meditation had increased density of gray matter related to compassion and empathy in the left hippocampus and temporoparietal junction, which is involved in emotional control.
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A team of researchers led by Dr. John Denninger of Harvard Medical School conducted a five-year study of the effects of yoga and meditation on the brain and genes under high stress,
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and found that the expression of genes involved in energy metabolism and other factors was increased in subjects who practiced yoga and meditation.
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A study at the University of Washington found that the group that meditated had less stress, higher concentration and better memory than the other groups.
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Scientists from the University of Wisconsin in the United States and an international team of researchers from Spain and France found scientific evidence that "meditation is associated with changes in the body that occur on a genetic and molecular level and is a stress reliever.
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A study by Spanish, French and American researchers showed that the meditation group showed changes in genes that play a role in anti-inflammatory drugs and painkillers, and their action led to a faster recovery from a stressful state.
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Another experiment, "Listening to others in distress," showed that the temporoparietal junction, the part of the brain associated with empathy for others, was activated to a greater extent in those who meditated regularly compared to those who did not meditate.
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Catherine Kerr, conducting research at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts, USA,
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Catherine Kerr found that people who practice mindfulness meditation have more power to block out distractions and regulate brain waves to improve productivity than those who do not.
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According to 2012 and 2014 studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands researching the facilitation of creative thinking by certain techniques, *proved* that meditation has a long-lasting impact on human cognition, which is how humans come up with new ideas and experience events.
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A study conducted by Georgetown University in the United States and published in January of 2017 found that meditation reduces the inflammatory hormone response to stress
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A 2017 study published by researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada found that 10 minutes of meditation can increase concentration in people with anxiety.
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A study of 3-month intensive care participants published in August of 2017 found that doing meditation positively affected psychological and immunological markers of stress and inflammation, and in addition, subjective well-being also improved.
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A June 2017 study conducted by Coventry University in the United Kingdom shows that meditation not only relaxes a person, it also "undoes" or compensates for certain parts of the DNA that are risk factors
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A study published in June 2017 by the University of Leeds in the U.K. found that meditation can be a cheaper alternative to traditional painkillers, showing that 10 minutes of mindfulness meditation improves pain tolerance and pain threshold and reduces pain anxiety.
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In a study conducted by Wake Forest Baptist Health in the United States in March of 2016, pain was reduced after a brief meditation. Meditation can be done in parallel with other conventional therapies and medications, to reduce pain without side effects.
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A 2015 study conducted by Wake Forest Baptist Health revealed that conscious meditation reduces pain more than sham drugs
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Much of the decline in brain function with age can be prevented by meditation," says a study from the University of California, Los Angeles, which looked at changes in gray matter (a dense area of nerve cell bodies) with age, in 100 people aged 24 to 77 years.
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According to Dr. Sara Lazar of Harvard University, meditation not only prevents brain deterioration, but also actually increases gray matter.
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According to Dr. Andrew Newberg of Thomas Jefferson University, who has studied brain changes in meditation and prayer, to activate the frontal lobe, which is involved in memory and cognition,
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you can practice focused meditation for 15 minutes to an hour once or twice a day, such as focusing on the breath or staring at a point