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Meditation Helps Tame The Brain's Emotional Response, Study Finds

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Channel: Krish Murali Eswar · 2017 · Education

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Meditation Helps Tame
The Brain's Emotional Response,
Study Finds

Of all the reasons people have
for trying meditation, being less
emotionally reactive is usually
pretty high up.

Neuroscience is starting to back up
the subjective emotional changes
we notice by illustrating
what’s going on in the brain
when people are confronted
with stressors.

A new study in Frontiers in Human
Neuroscience finds that people can
reduce their emotional reactivity,
by doing a short bout of meditation.

The team from Michigan State University
tested 68 participants.

They were then randomly assigned
to do an 18-minute guided meditation
or listen to a tape about learning
a new language (i.e, the control group).

Finally, they were shown various images,
some of which were disturbing,
and asked to view the images
either naturally or mindfully.

At the same time, the team measured
the electrical activity in their brains,
via electrodes on the scalp.

It turned out that for the people
who meditate, their brains showed
less reactivity, or a quicker recovery,
after seeing disturbing images.

The brain data suggested that
after 20 minutes of meditation,
peoples' emotional brain activity
was significantly reduced.

To gain quick relief of negative
emotions the data suggest
meditation works better than
trying to be mindful in the moment.

After sitting quietly with a
brief guided meditation audio/video,
even novices can gain quick control
over their emotions with little effort.

So if you’re feeling mindless,
or want to tamp down your reactivity,
try a short (five minutes at first,
if 20 seems too daunting) meditation.

The route you take does seem to matter,
but luckily, as the study also shows,
mindfulness is a definite trait
that can be learned.

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