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A Neuroscientist Explains How Meditation Changes Your Brain. Do you struggle, like me, with monkey-mind?

A Neuroscientist Explains How Meditation Changes Your Brain

Is your brain also a little unsettled, restless, capricious, whimsical, fanciful, inconstant, confused, indecisive, or uncontrollable? That’s the definition of “monkey mind” I’ve been given! If you need more motivation to take up this transformative practice, neuroscience research has shown that meditation and mindfulness training can cause neuroplastic changes to the gray matter of your brain. A group of Harvard neuroscientists interested in mindfulness meditation have reported that brain structures change after only eight weeks of meditation practice.

Sara Lazar, Ph.D., the study’s senior author, said in a press release, “Although the practice of meditation is associated with a sense of peacefulness and physical relaxation, practitioners have long claimed that meditation also provides cognitive and psychological benefits that persist throughout the day.” 10 Amazing Examples of Mind Over Matter. While we often think of our bodies and minds as two distinct entities, it turns out they are much more entwined than we might assume.

10 Amazing Examples of Mind Over Matter

Researchers are continually finding evidence that the brain has a distinct power to manipulate the body’s physiology. As these 10 examples show, the mind/body connection can work in our favor or detriment, depending on our knowledge of a situation and our ability to control our thoughts. Custom making soft toys with children. How To: Open your 3rd eye & stimulate Pineal gland.

The Science of Lucid Dreaming and How to Learn to Control Your Dreams, Animated. Amazing 2D Rubens’ Tube Visualizes Sound With a Plane of Fire. German physicist Heinrich Rubens became a god among nerds in 1905 when he invented a tube that uses fire to visualize standing sound waves.

Amazing 2D Rubens’ Tube Visualizes Sound With a Plane of Fire

When there is no sound fed into the tube, the flames rise to the same height. When a sound is added into the tube, the waveform actually affects the amount of gas that is fed through each hole. At the point of maximum displacement on the wave (the anti-node), the gas pressure varies. The pressure is highest when the wave crests and the gas is pushed closer to the hole, which forces more fuel out and causes the flame to grow higher. Scientific Proof Thoughts And Intentions Can Alter The World Around Us. Dr.

Scientific Proof Thoughts And Intentions Can Alter The World Around Us

Masaru Emoto, a researcher and alternative healer from Japan has given the world a good deal of evidence of the magic of positive thinking. Looking At Tears Under A Microscope Reveals A Shocking Fact. Share on Facebook.

Looking At Tears Under A Microscope Reveals A Shocking Fact.

Nahko Bear (Medicine for the People) ღ Aloha Ke Akua. Creative Mom Turns Her Baby’s Naptime Into Dream Adventures (Updated) Do babies dream when they sleep, or they simply rest peacefully?

Creative Mom Turns Her Baby’s Naptime Into Dream Adventures (Updated)

Queenie Liao, a freelance photographer, and mother of three baby boys living in California have tried to answer this question by sharing the adventurous dramas that her child Wengenn dreams of during his sleep. Combining artistry and imagination with photography, Queenie has created these cute photos using plain cloths, stuffed animals, and other common household materials to create the background setting. 30 Incredibly Powerful and Moving Photos. These 30 powerful photos are famous and poignant, they will forever be cemented in history.

30 Incredibly Powerful and Moving Photos

The images that were captured are so intense, they are impossible to be forgotten. They said a picture is worth a thousand words… but it’s impossible to say just how many words these are worth. Prepare to be left speechless. 1. Some parents, likely now in their 70′s, still looking for their missing child. Ani Difranco Self Evident. 26 Costumes That Prove Pugs Always Win At Halloween. 13 Pictures of Crazy Goats on Cliffs – It’s just what they do. I suppose, since it’s their instinct, these goats climbing around on cliffs aren’t literally insane.

13 Pictures of Crazy Goats on Cliffs – It’s just what they do

It’s just what they do. But still…crazy. (source) (source) (source) (source) (source) (source) KARMAGEDDON: The Movie - Main Trailer. Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude. Discovering your individual mission. Personal And Global Ascension 2012 - 2017 are you ready? Light Beings-Carriers Of Love. PLEIADIAN PROPHECY - The Great Changeover 2013 - 2027. IMG_53114574460555. IMG_46924021523669. IMG_46718855859113. IMG_46674408460979. IMG_46460453661676. IMG_45374634959912. IMG_38667422032523. IMG_38667422032523. In Impossible Darkness by Kim Rosen. Empathy. ~ Susan Frybort {Poem} Via Susan Fryborton Mar 25, 2014.

Empathy. ~ Susan Frybort {Poem}

Unbelievable Facts: Lennart Nilsson-A Swedish Photographer Spent 12 Years Of His Life Taking Pictures Of The Foetus Growing In The Womb. 24 Animals Sleeping And Cuddling With Stuffed Animals. Magical World Of Snails Captured In Macro Photography By Vyacheslav Mishchenko. EmailEmail Ukrainian photographer Vyacheslav Mishchenko is passionate about the less obvious and more fragile parts of nature, where little creatures like insects, molluscs, reptiles and amphibians dwell.

Magical World Of Snails Captured In Macro Photography By Vyacheslav Mishchenko

Living in their own macro world, these little things probably don‘t even notice the curious Mishchenko as he captures the most intimate and sensitive moments of their delicate lives. Here’s a collection of Mishchenko’s summery photography in which he has documented the everyday lives of snails in their natural environment in a splendid way. Slow down and enjoy! Source: Vyacheslav Mishchenko | Facebook. The 33 Most Beautiful Abandoned Places In The World. Sloth Squeak! Little Girl Experiences Rain For The First Time. “We Are Living In The Most Important Time In The History Of The Universe” Dolores Cannon Discusses Our Current Paradigm. This 'Groin Gazing' Fashion Spread Starring Boners Is Amazing. IMG-20140221-WA0001. IMG-20140222-WA0000.

10 Scientific Studies That Prove Consciousness Can Alter Our Physical Material World. Nikola Tesla said it best, “the day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. To understand the true nature of the universe, one must think it terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” rPe2jBQ. IMG-20140309-WA0000. IMG-20140312-WA0001. .facebook_-357228948. 28 Happy Photos That Will Improve Anyone's Day - Happiest Photos.

Finding happiness in life doesn’t have to be complicated. In fact, it can be simple as looking at a picture. A smile just might creep onto your face, in fact, if you look at any of the 28 photos below. The Water Crystals of Masaru Emoto. 24 Animals Sleeping And Cuddling With Stuffed Animals.