Meditation has always been considered as one of the most important tool in attaining spiritual peace and calm for your mind which results all-around development of the body and improves health. Our brain gets tremendous amount of energy as well as peace through meditation which helps an individual in getting all the required fuel for health improvement and also helps him or her in living prosperously in life.
These are the major five brain benefits we get from meditation.
1.Lower down the activity in Brain’s self center
According to the research done at Yale University, it has been proved that meditation reduces the activity in brain’s default mode network or DMN, which is responsible for wandering of the min, particularly when there is nothing specific on it. Lower wandering tendencies results into more memories, plans and ambitions.
2.It helps in curing depression
Meditation is the way to train your mind and it is beyond sitting at a place and doing nothing. According to various studies, regular meditation have been found curing the depression.
3.It changes structures of the key brain areas
A research conducted by a team in Harvard has clarified that meditation actually changes few structures of the key parts in our brain. Parts of the brain, which deals with memory and learning and areas which play important role in building emotions are included in it. It has also been proved that apart from changing parts of the brain meditation brings the radical changes throughout the brain.
4.Improves concentration
This is the more common benefit of meditation. It has been found in every case of meditation that concentration of that person has been increased in tremendous amounts.
5.Controls the aging of the brain
In a research done by UCLA, it has been proved that people who do meditation regularly usually preserve their brain for more time compared to people who never experienced meditation in their life. People with higher meditation rate have been found with greater amount of gray matter in their brains. Older people who are regular at meditating also found with some amount of gray materials.
By Prajakt K.
