Neuroscience of Meditation

Neuroscience of meditation.

Dhyana-Yoga is a Sanskrit word for the ancient discipline of meditation, as a means to Samadhi or enlightenment. Samadhi is a self-absorptive, adaptive state with realization of one's being in harmony with reality. It is unitive, undifferentiated, reality-consciousness, an essential being, which can only be experienced by spontaneous intuition and self-understanding. Modern neuroscience can hel...

Meditation and the Neuroscience of Consciousness

The overall goal of this essay is to explore the initial findings of neuroscientific research on meditation; in doing so, the essay also suggests potential avenues of further inquiry. The essay consists of three sections that, while integral to the essay as a whole, may also be read independently. The first section, “Defining Meditation,” notes the need for a more precise understanding of medit...

The Neuroscience of Meditation An Introduction to the Scientific Study of How Meditation Impacts the Brain

Can Meditation Amend Your Brain? Rising Thoughts in Neuroscience of Meditation

Meditation is becoming increasingly popular as a topic for scientific research and are being increasingly used for stress, psychological well being, coping with chronic illness as well as adjunctive treatments for psychiatric disorders. Research suggests that these meditations have differential, dissociable effects on a wide range of cognitive (control) processes, such as attentional selection,...

Meditation and the Neuroscience of Consciousness: An Introduction

The overall goal of this chapter is to explore the initial findings of neuroscientific research on meditation; in doing so, the chapter also suggests potential avenues of further inquiry. It has three sections that, although integral to the chapter as a whole, may also be read independently. The first section, “Defining Meditation,” notes the need for a more precise understanding of meditation ...