Heading: Mindfulness and Meditation - Effect on the Brain
Learning Objective: I can learn about mindfulness and meditation and how they effect the brain
mindfulness - a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique.
Research:
Neuroscience of Mindfulness: What Happens to Your Brain When You Meditate
What Does Mindfulness Meditation Do to Your Brain?Mindfulness Can Literally Change Your Brain
Big Ideas (write these down!):
-Daily meditation for 8 weeks increased brain volume of study participants in the areas responsible for learning, emotional regulation, and empathy, and shrank the amygdala (fight or flight regulator)
-Expert meditators' brains are trained to default to the meditative state; permanent change in perception
-Meditation can relax you and regulate your emotions in the short term, but it can also change your brain permanently if you approach it as a form of mental exercise.
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