23/04/2014 - How Meditation Changes Your Brain: A Neuroscientist Explains

How Meditation Changes Your Brain: A Neuroscientist Explains   
BY DR. SARAH MCKAY   
FEBRUARY 28, 2014 5:11 AM EST   

Do you struggle, like me, with monkey-mind? Is your brain also a little unsettled, restless, capricious, whimsical, fanciful, inconstant, confused, indecisive, or uncontrollable? That’s the definition of "monkey mind" I’ve been given!

If you need more motivation to take up this transformative practice, neuroscience research has shown that meditation and mindfulness training can cause neuroplastic changes to the gray matter of your brain.

A group of Harvard neuroscientists interested in mindfulness meditation have reported that brain structures change after only eight weeks of meditation practice.  more...