Meditation is the use of concentration to be aware and calm and this is how meditation helps your brain.
The benefits of meditation include:
- Improve quality of life,
2. improve the mood,
3. thus extending the life span.
4. It reduces anxiety,
5. reduces stress,
6. helps coping with depression as it lifts the mood,
7. helps to cope with pain and
8. alleviates symptoms of women with menopause,
Meditation improves the frontal lobe of the brain, thus helping concentration and mood. When the frontal lobe with good qualities is improved, the back of the brain that handles ego and self processes (self-referencing and mood), is restrained. Meditation improves the good qualities, while reduces the bad ones.
During meditations, the area that you use, will consequently be activated in your brain.
- Chanting mantras orally will activate your auditory cortex of brain.
- Moving while meditating will activate your motor cortex and cerebellum.
- Visual meditations activate your visual cortex.
It goes without saying that meditation is very useful for older people going through degenerative brain disorders like dementia.
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