Transforming Minds

This orthodoxy was now replaced with a new paradigm, called neuroplasticity. The brain, it turns out, is constantly changing in response to experience. It’s possible to sculpt your brain through meditation just as you build and tone your body through exercise—to grow your gray matter the way doing curls grows your bicep.

New research on its recently unimagined neuroplasticity shows that what you pay attention to, and how, can actually change your brain and thus your behavior. This extraordinarily practical scientific breakthrough shows that like physical fitness, the mental sort that sustains the focused life can be cultivated.

Moreover, there is increased brain wave coherence, which also improves attention span, creativity, learning ability, and memory retrieval. Also, the effects of meditation last into our daily activity, and soon our activity becomes saturated and influenced by the qualities of the unified field. This is because by experientially knowing something we

Research shows that practises like yoga and meditation that help us to focus our attention on the present moment, are especially powerful in restructuring the brain.

The human brain is constantly developing. Everything you do and experience is reshaping connections in your brain,

Meditation is not the only way in which you can use attention to change your neurophysiology and experience, but at present, these practices are the best understood, most accessible, and most clearly beneficial regimens.

If you meditate, you’ve felt your brain switch over. When you start, you’re still in default mode network, and your thoughts are all over the place. But as you push those stray thoughts aside and begin to focus, the task positive network kicks in.