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MEDITATION
Richard Davidson of the University of Wisconsin in Madison has been studying the brain activity in Tibetan monks for several years. He and his colleagues at UW had shown in past research that people inclined to think negative thoughts show a pattern of persistent activity in regions of their right prefrontal cortex. People with more positive temperaments showed this activity in the left prefrontal cortex instead. When Davidson ran the experiment on a senior Tibetan lama, skilled in meditation, the lamas activity proved to be much farther to the left of anyone that had been tested. Davidson says that judging from this one study, at least, this man could quantifiably be the happiest man in the world. Davidson recently tested the prefrontal activity in volunteers from a high tech company in Wisconsin. One group then received training in meditation. The control group received no such training. All the participants also received flu shots. By the end of the study, those who had meditated showed a pronounced shift in brain activity toward the left, “happier,” frontal cortex. The meditators also showed a healthier immune response to the flu shot, suggesting that the training affected the body’s health as well as the mind’s.
From the: Simonton Cancer Counseling Newsletter, Spring 2005,1-800-459-3424 |
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