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 Meditation is about more than peace of mind, it grows your mind
Meditation has long been recognized as one of the most effective means of managing stress and cultivating a quiet mind. For some practitioners, it is a path to transcendence, an enlightened state-of-being and self-realization.
However, one thing it was never credited for was physically growing the brain…until recently.
In a study conducted by Harvard Medical School psychologist Sara Lazar and her team of researchers, the brain scans of 20 experienced meditators, meditating, were compared to the scans of 15 nonmeditators, relaxing. The result: people who meditate grow larger brains. More specifically, they experience a thickening of the cerebral cortex.
According to Lazar, meditation promotes neuroplasticity in regions of the brain that are responsible for cognitive and emotional processing and well-being. "These findings are consistent with other studies that demonstrated increased thickness of music areas in the brains of musicians, and visual and motor areas in the brains of jugglers,” Lazar said. “In other words, the structure of an adult brain can change in response to repeated practice.”
Not only can the brain change, it changes in the part of the brain that normally thins as people age. So if you’re looking for the fountain of youth, the best place to find it may be in the quiet of your mind. Chances are, that’s the one place explorer Ponce de Leon never looked.
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