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What happens to your brain when you meditate? Nowadays, people see meditation as a treatment for illness. But what really happens in your brain when you meditate? Let's find out together in this video. You can't see or touch tension, but you can feel its effect on your mind and body. In short, tension increases your heart rate, your respiratory rate, and increases blood pressure. When you meditate, your mind produces too much of the hormone cortisone. Too much contact with this hormone can affect your brain function, immune system, and other organs. Tension can cause headaches, anxiety, depression, cardiovascular disease, and even early death. Although you can't get rid of the root of tension, you can reduce its effect on your body. One of the easiest and most effective techniques to reduce tension is meditation. A program where you focus your attention on the inside to create a deep relaxation state. Although meditation has been practiced for thousands of years, its health benefits are relatively new and promising. A 18-year-long meditation course by the Wisconsin-Madison Center for Mental Health was recently announced. The results show that the brain of a Buddhist monk who meditates daily has reduced the aging process by 8 years compared to other groups of objects being observed. The project began in the 1990s based on the relationship between the psychologist Richard Davidson and the Dalai Lama. Davidson, the founder of the Mental Health Center, began to create a connection between positive emotions and the health of the brain. Since then, he has focused his attention on meditation. Davidson said, The Dalai Lama encouraged me to practice this traditional meditation method and study it with scientific tools. If we find that meditation is really beneficial, this method will be widely popularized. The study uses MRI and a special machine to estimate the age of the brain through the brain image of a Buddhist monk. Davidson and the main scientist Nagesh Arnuru studied the mind of the Tibetan Buddhist monk Janggir Mingo Rinpoche for 18 years. Davidson said, The goal is to understand whether there is a difference in the aging speed in the brain of experienced Buddhist monks compared to new practitioners. Rinpoche was examined for the first time in 2002 at the age of 27. At that time, he completed 9 years of meditation. He was examined again at the corresponding ages of 30, 32, and 41. The last examination was done when he returned after a 4.5-year journey. His brain was estimated to be 33 years old, which is 8 years younger than the actual age. Researchers compared Rinpoche's brain with the brain of a group of subjects being closely monitored. The results showed that the brain of the monk was aging slower than the others. The importance of this discovery is too obvious. Even with the wrong frequency plus or minus up to 2-3 years, Davidson said, If the benefits of meditation are calculated over time, this will have a great impact on health and happiness. Especially now, amid the coronavirus pandemic, everyone can benefit from meditation. It is designed to remind us that goodness comes from ourselves. I think the most interesting thing is that we can influence our brain and change the speed it ages through doing things that are good for health. Researchers said they were excited to see how Rinpoche's brain would develop and how this research could improve overall health. What happens to your brain when you meditate? Meditation develops different areas in your brain. Your brain develops through neural connections. Neural cells process information in your brain to create neural pathways that are responsible for your thoughts, feelings, and actions. When you continuously do an activity, you strengthen the neural connections to help develop the areas in your brain. This process is similar to meditation. While the research on meditation is still in its early stages, some early research has found that meditation can lead to an increase in the level of gray matter in the cornea, which is an important area of the brain for memory and other areas of the brain, as well as an increase in the thickness of the brain in the frontal lobes, increasing the level of gray matter and the left side of the cornea to support learning, awareness, and memory, which leads to a better retention of activities and a better concentration of actions. The increase in the frontal lobes and the thickness of the brain allow for the function of awareness, attention, and self-awareness. Over the past decade, researchers have found that if you focus on breathing, the brain will reconstruct itself to make it easier to focus. If you practice calm acceptance while meditating, you will develop a brain that can recover better from stress. And if you meditate while nurturing love and confidence, your brain will develop in a way that you feel more natural when connecting with others. Christopher Rowe, a psychologist at Harborview Children's Hospital, said that if you look at the results from 6 to 12 months after meditation, from 20 to 30 minutes a day, you can see changes in the brain structure as well as changes in function. Stimulating the nervous system Another benefit of meditation is that it can neutralize your nervous system or fight back. When you encounter a threat, your nervous system releases stress hormones to help you get rid of or fight back the stress. When the danger passes, your nervous system will activate and allow you to rest. According to Rowe, through meditation, you are basically stopping your nervous system and activating your nervous system. During this time, it can help reduce pain, emotion, stress, and anxiety. He also emphasized how to neutralize your nervous system through meditation can reduce emotional response by realizing how not to judge what happens to you while meditating and then let it pass. You can avoid fighting or running away Meditation can help you improve your ability to focus in two ways. First, it can help you focus better on something specific while ignoring the distractions. Second, it can help you have more possibilities to perceive what is happening around you, help you have a fuller view of the present time. Some of the most interesting studies on meditation at the Quartzman Laboratory on Image and Behavior at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, together with Richard Davidson and the Laboratory on Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin have shown that meditation focuses on one thing such as breathing or looking at a object and activating important areas of the brain to control attention. This is also true for novice meditators, short-term practitioners, experienced meditators whose activation is even stronger in these areas if meditation focuses on the attention of the brain. Experienced meditators with more than 44,000 hours of meditation practice show less activation in these areas even though their effect on the attention of the brain is much stronger. This shows that people can increase their ability to focus immediately by learning a simple meditation technique and it can even make more progress. To see if meditation reduces the lack of attention, participants have to perceive two things happening in a row published in the magazine Plos Biology. It is revealed that the meditation training has improved the ability to perceive the two changes of the participants without reducing the accuracy. Brainwaves monitoring brain activity patterns showing the correct changes at each point in the brain activation process show that the meditation training uses less mental energy to focus on the first goal which helps the mind to free itself to perceive the next thing which makes it easier to focus on the brain. The final result shows that meditation can increase our ability to control the limitations of the brain especially for those who have limited mental energy. Although your attention is a limited source, you can learn to do more with the mental energy you have with meditation to reduce stress for you. The study also shows that meditation can help people who are confused. Philippe Gaudin, director of Stanford University Psychological Applied Neuroscience The common practice is to realize the present moment by focusing on the sound, breath, feeling in the body, thinking, feeling, observing without judging and trying to change what you perceive. In his research, those who participate in a 8-week meditation course to reduce stress meet once a week in a classroom to practice yoga with body awareness as well as to discuss the experience in daily life. Before and after meditation, those who participate are brainwashed by an MRI which examines the function of the brain, not the structure of the brain. The MRI monitors which brain consumes more energy during meditation The brain scans in Gaudin's research show a surprising pattern. After meditation, those who participate are more active in the brain related to processing information when they react to negative statements about themselves. In other words, they pay more attention to negative statements than what they did before meditation. They also show a reduction of activity in the nuclear core, an area related to stress and anxiety. The research shows that many discoveries about meditation teach people with anxiety how to deal with thoughts and sad feelings without being stopped. Most people ignore uncomfortable or negative thoughts about them. The MRI shows that people with anxiety are learning how to observe negative thoughts without reacting The MRI shows that people with anxiety are learning how to observe negative thoughts without reacting The MRI shows that people with anxiety are learning how to observe negative thoughts without reacting The MRI shows that people with anxiety are learning how to observe negative thoughts All meditators have different emotional reactions to sounds. Meditators with more experience show that the brain reacts more in important areas to deal with physical sensations and emotional reactions, especially with painful sounds. Researchers also observe an increase in heart rate with brain changes. These discoveries show that meditators have real empathy and meditators with experience feel more self-aware. In other words, self-awareness seems to make the brain open more naturally to connect with others. These techniques may have benefits other than the experience of self-awareness. A study by Professor of Psychology Barbara Fredrickson and her colleagues at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Michigan shows that a 7-week study also increases the daily experience of participants in joy, gratitude and hope. The more people participate in meditation, the better they feel. Participants also say they feel more self-acceptance, are supported by society, have a purpose in life and satisfaction in life, while rarely experiencing real and emotional symptoms. This study provides strong evidence that self-awareness can open a more meaningful connection to life. Although meditation can cause surprising changes in your brain and vision, it doesn't happen overnight and it's not a cure-all. Learn how to let go of your expectations. Simply put, meditation is a difficult experience, but it's really important. The more you practice in a moment the better you will get. 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