| Push-ups, crunches, gyms, personal trainers — | | | | that they were all extensively taught in the |
| people have many strategies for building bigger | | | | Buddhist Insight meditation practices. This meant |
| muscles and stronger bones. But what can one do | | | | that the subjects spent about 40 minutes or so |
| to build a bigger brain?Now don't get surprise if in | | | | each day in deep meditation. The result was that |
| school your children have a mediation period !!! | | | | the people in the group2 had a significant increase |
| Now scientists all over the world believe that | | | | in the cortical tissue and grey matter.The |
| meditation can increase the depth of the cortical | | | | researchers found significantly larger cerebral |
| tissue in the brain. Thus this type of change or | | | | measurements in meditators compared with |
| evolution of the brain can help the meditation | | | | controls, including larger volumes of the right |
| practiser to increase the emotional stability, focus | | | | hippocampus and increased gray matter in the |
| and sensory response. | | | | right orbito-frontal cortex, the right thalamus and |
| | | | the left inferior temporal lobe. There were no |
| The right orbito-frontal cortex, shown here, is | | | | regions where controls had significantly larger |
| the area of the brain that appears to be | | | | volumes or more gray matter than meditators. |
| enlarged due to meditation. | | | | Using an MRI the researchers were able to |
| The set of researchers from Harvard, Yale, the | | | | monitor the changes brought about through |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology and | | | | regular meditation. |
| Massachusetts General Hospital studied 44 people | | | | Source: |
| and divided them into two groups. Out of which | | | | 1. |
| the group1 were controlled with no meditation and | | | | 2. |
| the group2 each one with significant commonality | | | | |