USING FMRI SCANS, WE CAN NOW SEE WHAT MEDITATION DOES TO THE BRAIN. THE AUTHOR SUGGESTS IT CAN LEAD TO A HAPPIER, MORE PRODUCTIVE, AND CREATIVE LIFE. AND EVEN TWO MINUTES A DAY CAN DO WONDERS.
Ever since my dad tried to convince me to meditate when I was about 12, I’ve been fairly skeptical of this practice. It always seemed to be so vague and hard to understand that I just decided it wasn’t for me.
More recently, I’ve actually found how simple (not easy, but simple) meditation can be and what a huge benefit it can have for my day-to-day happiness. As an adult, I first started my meditation practice with just two minutes a day. Two minutes! I got that idea from Leo Babauta’s Zen Habits blog, where he points out how starting with a tiny habit is the first step to consistently achieving it. So even though two minutes won’t make much difference, that’s where I started.
Whether you’re as skeptical as I used to be, or you’re well ahead of me with a meditation habit of several hours, I think it’s always interesting to find out how new habits affect our brains. I had a look into meditation to see what’s going on inside our brains when we do this, and what I found is pretty interesting.
The rest of this article with technical insights how meditation works you can find on the authors website