How Does Meditation Change the Brain? - Instant Egghead #54
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- Опубликовано: 30 окт 2013
- Meditation can sharpen attention, strengthen memory and improve other mental abilities. Scientific American editor Ferris Jabr examines the changes in brain structure behind some of these benefits.
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I started practicing meditation on a daily basis about six months ago and I have recently come to realize that most of the people around me are often times hasty, hurried, reactive, distracted, agitated, and impatient. I used to be very much like them.
If you keep and intensify the practice you will be able to regain the perception of your own flaws. Then compassion grows. That initial phase is the most delicate to the ego, who tend to misjudge the first improvements as a change in character. But that will take years.
I know what you mean. The struggle, for me at least, is to not view myself as "above" them. I sometimes notice serious meditators can be a bit "holier-than-thou" about people that don't do it and have less control over their emotions.
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How many minutes a day do you meditate for??
@ Gilvan Borges According to Theravada Buddhism, it could take minutes.
Meditation has changed me 💯 %. My faves are the body scan meditations
Hi, i am too a practitioner of this method for some time now, i have a few questions and i will really appreciate it if you give me just 5 minutes of your time.
How has it changed u?
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I have some health issues and I not have proper concentration and memory loss
How many days it will take to see results
Meditation changed my life guys!!! you should try it! after 2 months i've seen changes that amaze me... before meditation i though i couldn't change but after man.. im a new person
Can you tell me some of the changes you have noticed? Im going on 7 days and i love it
Jorge Zavala that’s awesome
Chana banana How do you meditate, is there a video I can follow?
Which meditation and how many times in a day??
Just 2 months? Its been 5 mths for me, About benifits, I feel good only when meditating and not when I have to face real life. Its like 140 hrs (sitting) and another 60 hours of informal (walking or lying).
I feel so energetic after I meditate. I also more positive and happy after a session (even a short one)
I'm 15 now and I've been doing this meditation since lockdown period. I did this almost 3 hours a day, and the results are ground breaking and life changing. Ive received enlightment. Now I know what really my mind and my body is.
edit :- I left all these things, and am now a devoted INTJ working towards my goal. Though what i knew will always be true, but that stopped me from my responsibilities and role in this life. I'm now focusing on my career, indeed, with my continual meditative ecstacy.
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That’s incredible
It's amazing you're doing this at a young age. I started too when I was about 15. But as I got older I stopped. I'm 25 now and I just started. I should've kept doing this when I was in my teens. Don't stop dude! I applaud you 👏
3 hours!?? damnn
If this is true then its the best ànd greatest decision of your life. It will change your life for the better. Hope you will continue it for rest of your life.
Meditation is basically training the mind, and what we are is the basically the brain, the brain controls everything we do so... Best to make it better.
Hi, I am from India.
Yoga, Meditation and Ayurveda are the gifts of our forefathers to the present generation....
We must include these in our day to day life especially in such a world full of stress.
But unfortunately we Indian are not practicing it and westerns are taking over these and we are busy in hitting Gym!
@@KUSH_Joshi Let's Nobel thought come to us from all side
We must learn what is good in the west. Gradually the whole world shall embrace the natural and spiritual ways ....be hopeful...
And in 70 years after independence, the people who spoke English have ruled us and therefore common people have mentality to follow the western lifestyle....
@@bunny4246 yeah agreed!
Gift of Aryans. Not you. Even the Hindu gods came from central Asia
@@KUSH_Joshi he is talking of mindful based meditation nit transcendtal
I started practicing meditation because I have morning anxiety and sometimes it gets extremely hard to survive the rest of the day because of it. I really got some amazing results after a few days only.. Like throughout the day I feel full of energy and there's a sense of positivity everyday, I feel happy. Also there is one thing I noticed that earlier my head used to feel heavy as if there's some load up there but now it feels like that load is gone.... Consistency is the key to get maximum results from meditation and yoga. I'm gonna make them part of my lifestyle.
I’m 42 and just started meditating trying to keep my attention on my breath. So far I have to say it’s not hard, but not as easy as it may sound. Right now I do on average probably 10 minute sessions. My stress response in many ways is poor so I’m hoping meditation can help me manage stress and perhaps increase my stress threshold. My favorite part so far is when I slowly open my eyes and the feeling of relaxation I feel. I’m from the US and our culture as a whole doesn’t seem to value slowing down. I think we could all benefit from slowing down. In some ways I think Covid introduced the idea here because we had too slow down. It gave us time to think and value some things that we weren’t before. Just my thoughts. Peace
I hear you on this and can relate with your experiences. 🎯💯
@@lotusluciditys3rdrealm
Thank you and best wishes on your journey
I’m a 41-year old noob. Maybe been doing this for three weeks. Any pointers? I just downloaded the Waking Up app. Is it worth a subscription or just I just keep doing what I’ve been doing (mindful to myself)?
@@1-800-WILLIAMyou can do meditation without the help of an app. There is not one path to this, but various.
Transcendental meditation is easiest for starters.
Meditation will influence your level of stress and will decrease it in many ways. In other words, it is a very good practice for managing your stress.
I truly believe that, through sustained meditation, it can "awaken" us to fully experience our subconscious plane and introduce us to our other unexplainable extra-sensory gifts. Thus, allowing ourselves to evolve into a heightened state of being.
That is most likely true. It is also mentioned in Indian scriptures.
I'v been meditating.. on and off for almost 50 years.. My experience with meditation.. over the years is.. it never fails to surprise me.. but I have no control whatsoever on how it effects me.. I just let it happen.. Lucid dreams and visions.. Out of the body experiences.. Glimpses of the future.. Intuitive insights.. Creativity.. Wisdom.. Feeling completely intoxicated while out walking.. comparable to being on drugs. Seeing a strange pure light.. that does not originate from the sun.. but comes from somewhere deep inside me.. Levels of consciousness that I didn’t know existed.. that overwhelm me with their beauty and feelings of bliss.. etc.
This is not something that the human-race should ignore.. IT’S A HIDDEN TREASURE.. inside us all. Just like the iceberg.. there is so much more to every one of us.. than what meets the eye.. what Jung referred to as - THE UNDISCOVERED SELF .
"That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself."
- Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
Thank you for sharing your experience..
It changed my life 15 years of antidepressants gone! It’s underestimated I’m glad people can’t be bothered because people that can hold the power 😊
As I am moving forward in my mediation journey, I have realised how flawed I am. I have become more compassionate so I judge myself and others less and less every day. Although I do have rainy days when my meditation isn’t deep: I remind myself that it’s a journey, not a destination.
Practicing music is a superb meditation too.
well, its not really a form of meditation, though it can by extremely therapeutic.
Yes indeed/Almost trance like/Deep meditation b4 playing creates effortless possibilities...
Don't just meditate for your personal benefit; that goal is narrow. Meditate for the well being of others beings; that there is boundless. Don't limit yourself by being self centered. :)
Thanks for sharing these awesome facts! Awesome video!
Thank the consciousness that ive been meditating heavily and reading a dictionary since 15
I STARTED TODAY, LET’S DO IT!
Hope you keep going and progressing 😊
How's it going?
@@SmoothTsunami stopped after 2 days hahaha, i gotta get back tho
@0.13 that music uplifted me !!
Just Completed Day 5 Of My Meditation.. Phase
Great Video! Thank you for creating and sharing! :)
I teach mindfulness meditation online as part of a mindfulness therapy program that I offer. In essence, mindfulness meditation is learning to embrace experience directly without reducing it through labeling and judgement or prejudice. When you can fully embrace anxiety or depression in this way you create the exact conditions that promote healing and transformation, which is why it can be so effective in promoting well-being.
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very interesting, thanks for sharing!
I absolutely love to meditate, I has changed my life ❤.
I’m 40 I haven’t started the meditation yet but have been thinking about it lately
Good job Ferris and everyone else! Btw anyone experiencing anxiety and/or depressive disorders should at least try.
Wow, very informative and in depth video. I agree with you 👍
amazing! Just what I was looking for, thank you
I too do transcendental meditation twice a day in school.
Meditation is changing my mindset from negative to positive though I started just before one month
Thanks a lot!
Very nice video
Hello professor
Thank you so much for your interesting information, i really appreciate your job.
I wish you happiness and peace under the sky of prosperity.
All the best.
Take care and have a good time.
Your follower from Algeria.
Thank you for this great share.
Po 12 latach praktyki widzę już tylko ludzi którym należy współczuć i pomagać.
I really need to meditate 😖
Dear Scientific American: At 0:22 of your video, the animation displays neuronal signals propagating BACKWARDS (i.e., from axon terminals toward dendrites). If you mean to suggest that meditation rewires one's brain to that extent, it is certainly to be avoided. That can't be good for you.
It might be a technical mistake by the creator as such don't avoid meditation, it has changed vulnerable lives including mine.
I hope you introspect on your practice , Stay blessed 🙏
I hope you didnt get too caught up on that. Meditation is a great way to gain focus, improve memory and get to know your mind in ways you didnt before. Meditation like any other think we train, rewires the brain to a certain extent, certainly it does make neuronal signals propagate backwards.
As I am writing this I realized you wrote this 7 years ago, oh well.
bro literally everyone understood, quit being one of those boomers who cant see thru simple nuance
It's an artistic error. You really think the drawing guy has the decisive say about the subject? Stop being a perfectionist
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It’s weird. If we are meditating to be in the present moment does that mean when we’re not meditating we are just improvising the whole time
Also try these books.... Practical meditation and The way and goal of Rajyoga.... these are from 'omshantistore'.
Does that mean if you're good at learning something you'll become better but worse where you're bad but want to improve?
شكرا فارس جابر. 😁
I really have problem remembering things so o guess i should try?
Good video
Thank you
I did a full body scam and it changed my perception going at 30 hours..eill it go back to normal eventually
I have some health issues and I not have proper concentration and memory loss
How many days it will take to see results
There are hundreds of different types of meditation. If they are all different then they would probably change the brain in different ways. Transcendental Meditation has been shown to increase the coherence of the brain holistically.
Ashley Deans the ending its always the same for each meditation. Different paths to the same purpose. The objective is the same: cease your mind and let your ego fund with your being, by being in the moment, in the now.
Many techniques but all the same -AWARENESS
TM is basically a Western, Californicated culty version of meditation. You can do meditation for free, you don't need to pay a foundation $1,000+ to learn some mantras.
I meditated the correct way finally for the first time last night after it omg I was alert,aware and focused at 2 in the morning at night lol I was talking to myself all positive I was smiling at my self in the mirror big ash it felt good my stress went down my anxiety my blood pressure I felt so relaxed and energized oh yeah even had a headache before meditating after it went away
That headspace ad could be better explain with a bubble instead of a feather
Meditation is life changing
"millionaire group coach" fuck outta here goofball
@@mikaelbran7174 Right!
I won’t say meditation started the change in me. My phenomenon change of being nihilistic to the world was accidental. After that I started meditating and it helped me not go my original destructive form and keep me in this new form for months now. I am happy with the result of meditation. ❤ 💯 %
... they need to teach this in class... Adding the fact that its scientifically proven
Thanks 🙏🏻 ❤
does meditation into sleep work? (lying on bed, try meditate for 10mins into sleep)
John Clare is my mentor.
Very interesting.
Thanks to Ancient INDIAN YOGIS for this ❤
Meditation is not a practice. Meditation is living the way life intended us to live.
I absolutely love meditation, it has drastically changed my life for the better, but this is false. Life intends for us to be mindlessly striving and anticipating for the future. The two natural things are to focus on something that you are highly motivated to focus on or, alternatively, let your mind wander. Meditation is, by definition, unnatural.
@@acardinalconsideration824 Hi, very late to the party, but your comment is interesting. I think it is society, education/values and technology which makes us be mindlessly striving and anticipating the future. I believe our bodies have not yet adapted to this level of constant stimulation, so somehow meditation and being present could be more natural to our brains.
Take a lunch time nap and you will feel great and have better focus and concentration in the late afternoon when most people experience lethargy and low energy .
That was very cool! Now I want to start meditating. :)
Heyy. Did it help you?? I'm thinking to start meditating. Yea and ik I'm asking you after 8 years but that's ok.
@@ahmadtakash7605 start it now. It will be beneficial in the long run. I know it's never too late to start something new. But really Im telling you, meditation is best medication for brain.
Don't trust me! Try it for at least one week everyday for just 10 mins. Here on RUclips, you can search and start meditation in "meditation for beginners". It's just 10-15 mins in whole 24 hrs that you will give to yourself and it's important.
@@ahmadtakash7605 this will change you even after using it for 1 week. If it feels nice and peaceful, countinue it.
@@ahmadtakash7605 it’s changed my life
is mindfulness meditation more beneficial than concentration meditation (focusing on breathing and refocusing every time your mind wanders, instead of focusing on arising thoughts)?
I think it's more a question of what kind of benefits you're looking to obtain, and then selecting the meditation according to that criteria. In fact, if you're like most people, you will probably find that you can benefit from practicing both types of meditation (i.e., *open monitoring/vipassana/inclusive*, and *focused attention/shamatha/exclusive*)
Wife: why are you sitting like that with your eyes closed?
Me: i’m going for that wrinkly cortex look
How does one not fall asleep? The guided group meditations I experienced daily for 2 months were more like a group nap time.
Solo attempts since then result the same.
Is the sitting posture the key to not falling out into dreams?
I haven't attempted it for years.
I often fall asleep without realizing I have done so until I wake up.
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Do it in the shower or when on shrooms or weed
but it is not helping me since i've started meditation iam feeling terrible iam having headaches and having blood pressure issues
I also starting meditretion last 2years i have lots of expriences .now my overy cyst .breast fibord veniced..,migrane pain.,eye pain ,enxity fipretions fear all are venice heal befor and after i m very happy ..🎉🎉🎉 lv from Assam
Been meditating since 15 technically 16 but found it at 15 didn’t do it a lot
You mean that you didn't meditate a lot or that meditation didn't do a lot for you?
He says "Like everything else we do, Meditation rewires our neural circuits, pruning away our least used connection and strengthening the ones we exercise most. But what if your in the process of building some more positive habits yet the negative habits are "more exercises"? Does this mean the weaker habits your building will get pruned away? Lol, can someone enlighten me on this ?
Enrique you should meditate - it will make you more kind to others
You're brainwashing yourself
@@mohicanmowl if you're brainwashing for something good then it's ok
Or you can just get up and do kind things to help others
Sir,for how long should we meditate everyday?
where can I go to learn how to meditate ?
Mediation music and putting all your energy into one thing (like breathing)
Is it just me, or does the outro music sound kind of like the stranger things theme?
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No
Savannah yeah but this was out 6 years ago
I felt my pulse sharpen as I was waking up little by little and could barely move my mucles it was scary
This happened to me! I can't find much about it online either. My hands and feet curled up like rigormortis. I slowly regained control over my extremities when I stopped in fear. I felt high and giggly but it didn't feel healthy.
Sleep paralysis
Whatever video or comments that i read on how to meditate i just cant get it. Its not working for me idk why
Meditation takes time be patient. It can be really hard, it can take a week, months but do it every day without a fail. You can feel high from meditation. It feels really good. Do it everyday especially when you wake up make sure is the first thing you do. Good luck.
Real question is what is meditation?
How do you meditate properly? I've tried a so many times but got nothing from it
I've found the guided sitting meditation of jon kabat zinn very helpful. You'll find it on RUclips. Any mindfulness based one will do though. I used to do 10-20mins for a long time and it did nothing for me too. I'd almost given up. But 30mins+ a day is the real game changer. I personally experienced a huge difference in my anxiety, depression, mood and concentration in as little as 2-3 weeks.
@@Jst4fun817 i think 45 minutes is the minimum amount of time to truly affect u
Have you read the Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle? It's like a guide to mindfulness and will help alot
Why does Ferris look so nervous? XD
It's his eyebrows. They won't settle down.
Nice viodeo
hey guys as a beginner should i meditate with my eyes open or closed??
and is it ok to meditate 5mins a row?or should i meditate longer?? like 10mins?
+WINSTON RODRIGUES Open
thnkss
+WINSTON RODRIGUES it depends where you will put your focus during the meditation. if you're focusing on your breath, i think it's easier do it with your eyes closed.
It depends,if it's things such as energy meditation than eyes closed
If regular meditation than open
Yes
What about hypnosis?
currently trying to convince myself 2 do this haha
I need to start a routine of 10 minutes a day at least
This is a revelation. I recently read a similar book, and it was a revelation in itself. "Reclaiming Connection: The Journey of a Digital Detox" by Joshua Ember
meditation is good for you
Buddhist monks meditate for 3 hours a day. Do with that information what you will. 🙏
But are there preferred methods? Where does one start?
/watch?v=q06YIWCR2Js control your breathing at all time...
check out www.headspace.com, ex-buddhist monk guides you in the mindfulness meditation process.
I started 6 months ago, every morning 6am for 30 minutes. I am getting better for real.
tomorrow
Mike Lazarus focus on your breath, inhale and exhale 4 seconds for each one. Then increase to 6 seconds.
I meditate several hours every day and I have for many years now and it's incredible!
Ronny Kumar
LOL! Yes, I work 40 hours a week and I have been with my current employer for 24 years now. I've never been interested in getting married and having kids, so being single, I have the time for extensive meditation, in fact, I'm sitting in half lotus right now and I'm about to meditate for a couple of hours, just as soon as I send this. Take care!
@Antonio Gonzalez
The answer to your question will be different for every individual person but for myself, with the beliefs and values that I have… Yes, it is worth it.
I meditate so much to the point that i was able to read cat brains 🐱
????
What i can do? I don't have brain
I started practicing
Me too
Isn't this true. If you want to be successful go inside rather than outwards 😄😄
👍👌
how do u know the time when u medetate ,im starting to think most peaple only think meditation is to sit in silence, if there is no vibration and if u dont have that feeling of everything it is not medetation
Maybe what you're talking about is an experience entailing advanced stages of meditation. People usually start with sitting in silence and being mindful. As far as ordinary folks like me are concerned, this itself has yielded huge benefits in a matter of a few weeks and will suffice. Not everyone's purpose of meditation is undertaking an intense spiritual journey, right?
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I medites for 3 hours
Being mindful steers you toward meditation...meditation steers you toward mindfulness...mmmm...err i mean ommmmmm ;)
There is no way to start. Simply go to a quiet room. I prefer to take a sheet and fold it, place it on the floor and assume the criss-crossed legs position. Meditation isn't one of those disciplines that you have to have a structure to. Some days you can just go. But if you're a busy person, 20-30 minutes a night is sufficient. If you can put in an hour, great.
i dont believe in always crossing your legs and sit for m meditation .You should meditate in the posture in which you feel relaxed..
I have my son he is ADHD so that can help him,if so how?
Tamara St Rose I know it's an extremely late reply, but yes it will.
Tox1c Pow4r
Wouldn't call 5 months extremely late. Life is long and you can start meditation any time.
Tox1c, how much will it help him?
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