(Scientific Study) How To Heal With Meditation

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For thousands of years, Buddhist monks have used meditation to achieve a transcendental experience on the path to enlightenment. 

Recently, physicians have clinically used meditation to successfully help treat disorders like depression, anxiety, addictions, and chronic pain.  

The thing is, until recently, the effects of meditation on the brain were largely unknown. 

But then something interesting happened…

Dr. Judson Brewer of the Yale School of Medicine identified functional changes in the brains of experienced meditators in a new brain imaging study. 

Brewer started meditating during medical school to help cope with stress. 

He found it very helpful, and about 10 years later, began studying it clinically using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

At the risk of sounding too technical…


fMRI is a safe, non-invasive technique that measures oxygen levels in the brain.

Why’s that important?

Simple - because more active regions of the brain require more oxygen.

In his study, Brewer performed fMRI brain scans on experienced meditators and even inexperienced meditators.

The subjects in the study used three types of mindfulness meditation techniques.

Brewer and his team found two notable trends in the results of the study. 

First, experienced meditators showed deactivation of the part of the brain known as the default mode network (DMN), a region involved in daydreaming. 

All three forms of meditation showed similar results. 

This discovery is interesting because one of the goals of meditation is to remain focused…

....and deactivation of the DMN seems to show that meditation is functionally doing just that in the brain. 

To learn more about the most effective meditation practices my friend Jason used to overcome HIV, click here. 

 When Jason was first diagnosed with HIV, he thought his life was over… until he stumbled across this…