Can 6 weeks of meditation change your brain?
At The Regenesis Project, we use cutting edge neuro-imaging to better understand brain function.
In this video, Dr. Jordan and Victoria Venkatraman partnered with Buzzfeed and Goodful to see how 6 weeks of meditation affects brain function.
Check out the final results!
Key takeaways:
š§ Advanced MRI (fMRI) can show how the brain is working and how different regions are functionally connected, rather than just the shape and size of the brain
š§ Anxiety is related to a particular part of the brain called the amygdala (you have two amygdalae) that has to do with the flight or flight mechanism
š§ When people become anxious, the whole brain gets caught up (frontal lobe gets engaged in anxiety response) and the amygdala can become hyper-connected to other brain regions.
š§ Before her 6-week meditation practice, her amygdala was much more activated compared to same-aged peers.
š§ After her 6-week meditation, her whole brain quieted down and there is much less activation in her frontal lobe, and her amygdala is no longer hyper-connected in comparison to age-matched peers (statistical analysis).
š§ fMRI clearly shows how meditation changes yours brain!!!!
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