Yoga Meditation Benefits Brain Wiring

Research scientists are continuing to discover important yoga meditation benefits. As researchers have found out only within the last ten to fifteen years, our brains are continually de-wiring and re-wiring themselves on a daily basis. This is how new memories and behavior patterns are laid down and hard-wired in. It stands to reason that encouraging the formation of the best wiring patterns, a.k.a. neuron connections, will give us an optimally functional brain. A recent study reported in the Business Standard from an original article by the Press Trust of India relates just how powerful and rapid certain yoga meditation techniques can be with regard to rewiring our brains.

Yoga Meditation Benefits Brain Wiring

Saints and yoga gurus have been saying this since ages, now a new study has reinforced their claim that meditation can alter your brain wiring within a month, a finding they say could lead to the development new treatments for several mental disorders.

Yoga meditation benefits brain wiring. Photo Nicolas Tacchi c/o WiKiMedia Commons.

Scientists in the US looked at the effects of integrative body-mind training (IBMT) on two groups of university students and found significant physical changes in their brains after just four weeks, or as less as 11 hours, of training.
Nerve fibres, known as "white matter", became denser, providing greater numbers of brain-signalling connections. At the same time there was an expansion of myelin, the protective fatty insulation surrounding nerve fibres, the team found.

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Yoga meditation benefits anyone who practices on a regular basis. Clearly, this research illustrates just how quickly these neuronal changes can take place. It also supports the idea that you don't have to practice yoga meditation techniques for years in order to achieve noticeable improvements in your mental state and in how you interact with the world around you.

What do you think? Do you believe these research findings? Do your own experiences with yoga meditation techniques support their observations?

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