Forscher haben herausgefunden, dass Praktiker der Achtsamkeitsmeditation im Vergleich zu Nicht-Meditierenden unterschiedliche Muster der Gehirnaktivität aufweisen, selbst im Ruhezustand.
Scientists discover a fascinating fact about the brain’s of meditators
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From the article: Using advanced electroencephalography (EEG) techniques, the study [published](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12671-024-02461-z) in Mindfulness found that meditators demonstrated differences in brain wave activity across theta, alpha, and gamma frequency bands. These differences, seen in both the strength and distribution of brain activity, suggest that long-term meditation practice leads to enduring changes in neural processes, potentially underpinning the cognitive and emotional benefits associated with mindfulness.
Mindfulness meditation has grown in popularity as a tool for managing stress, improving emotional well-being, and enhancing cognitive function. . It involves maintaining focused, non-judgmental awareness of the present moment. While previous studies have linked mindfulness to various benefits, researchers are keen to understand the underlying neural mechanisms.
“We were interested in the topic because mindfulness meditation has been associated with improved mental health and cognitive performance, but the neurophysiological changes that enable those improvements are not fully characterized,” said study author Neil Bailey, a senior research fellow at the School of Medicine and Psychology at Australian National University.
“While research has shown that the brain activity of experienced meditators differs while they’re completing a cognitive task or while they are meditating, there wasn’t so much research testing whether their brain activity also differs while they are at rest. Additionally, most previous research looking at brain activity in meditators has used measures that aren’t sensitive to whether the differences between meditators and non-meditators is produced by differences in the amplitude of brain waves (rhythmic shifts in voltages detected by electroencephalography; EEG), or whether the differences might be due to brain activity that is not rhythmic (voltage shifts detected in EEG data that are less repetitive and wouldn’t be defined as ‘brain waves’).”
So.. a brain looks different if it’s thinking about different things. I’m not sure how this is science exactly. This is just conditional training, doesn’t really mean it’s good or bad.
They say that the meditation is more like priming the mind, and the actual moment of realization often occurs suddenly in everyday life.
Apparently the areas of the brain associated most closely with empathy exhibited more activity than the average person. So, that would indicate that meditation may lead to becoming a kinder person. Sounds pretty beneficial to me.