Meditation – Think About It…

Meditation helps your brain work more efficiently…

Although it can be challenging, a regular meditation practice can make your brain work better.  Science has discovered that meditation helps the brain process information more efficiently.  A study conducted at the University of Wisconsin found that people who meditate capture information that others have missed when presented with a series of visual cues in a quick succession.  Novices to meditation who practiced just 20 minutes per day scored much better than those who did not meditate at all.  The difference was most marked in longtime practitioners of vipassana meditation.

According to Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Woman’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, regular meditation enhances the brain’s capacity for perception, awareness, and efficiency in processing.  “Meditation has both short- and long-term benefits to brain structure and function”.