Meditation is an exercise method often used in yoga to eliminate cluttered ideas, calm people, and think clearly. Scientists have found that meditation can make the human brain younger!
Los Angeles, CA (Periodical News) – Meditation is an ancient exercise. Historically, meditation is an act in religious activities (Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism), such as Yoga, Qigong, Bhavana, etc. Now, any religious or non-religious spiritual training in sit quietly and other methods can be called meditation. Meditation allows people to pay attention to their breathing and focus their minds, and gain spiritual power from it.
This study scans the brains of 50 long-term meditators. The meditators have regular meditation habits. Most participants practice meditation every day. The meditation experience ranges from 4 to 46 years, with an average of 19.8 years.
This includes studying the brain of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is a 41-year-old Buddhist monk. He practices meditation almost every day. Researchers have scanned his brain four times with an MRI machine in the past 14 years.
“YMR’s brain-aging rate appeared slower than that of controls suggesting early maturation and delayed aging. At 41 years, his brain resembled that of a 33-year-old,” the researcher said. ”Specific regional changes did not differentiate YMR from controls, suggesting that the brain-aging differences may arise from coordinated changes spread throughout the gray matter.”
The research team recruited more than 200 participants. They received a 20-minute Open Monitoring Meditation exercise, while the researchers used machines and EEG to measure brain activity. Then, they completed a computerized distraction test.
“The EEG can measure brain activity at the millisecond level, so we got precise measures of neural activity right after mistakes compared to correct responses,” the researcher said. “A certain neural signal occurs about half a second after an error called the error positivity, which is linked to conscious error recognition. We found that the strength of this signal is increased in the meditators relative to controls.”
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