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I read that Meditation Can Shrink the Amygdala which means low Inhib is it true?
The University of Pittsburgh examined the brains of long-time meditators specifically when they were not meditating. MRI scans show that after an eight-week course of mindfulness practice, the brain’s 'fight or flight' centre, the amygdala, appears to shrink. This primal region of the brain, associated with fear and emotion, is involved in the initiation of the body’s response to stress. As the amygdala shrinks when meditators heard the sounds of people suffering, they had stronger activation levels in their temporal parietal junctures, a part of the brain tied to empathy, than people who did not meditate.
Meditators are more compassionate.
The amygdala actually shrinks, and this correlates with the reduction in perceived stress.Animals are able to turn their amygdala on and off. Gazelles are a good example; if a lion chases them, their amygdala begins firing, and this helps them get away from the predator. But as soon as the lion stops chasing them, the herd is back to grazing within five minutes. They need to eat, and so have learned to turn their amygdala off when they don't need it.
What we find in humans is the amygdala switches on, but because we have our imagination and we can think about all the future things that might go wrong, it doesn't so easily switch off for many of us. We end up worrying about the future or brooding about the past. The amygdala is kept switched on for things that have not even happened yet - we can invent worries.”
The University of Pittsburgh examined the brains of long-time meditators specifically when they were not meditating. MRI scans show that after an eight-week course of mindfulness practice, the brain’s 'fight or flight' centre, the amygdala, appears to shrink. This primal region of the brain, associated with fear and emotion, is involved in the initiation of the body’s response to stress. As the amygdala shrinks when meditators heard the sounds of people suffering, they had stronger activation levels in their temporal parietal junctures, a part of the brain tied to empathy, than people who did not meditate.
Meditators are more compassionate.
The amygdala actually shrinks, and this correlates with the reduction in perceived stress.Animals are able to turn their amygdala on and off. Gazelles are a good example; if a lion chases them, their amygdala begins firing, and this helps them get away from the predator. But as soon as the lion stops chasing them, the herd is back to grazing within five minutes. They need to eat, and so have learned to turn their amygdala off when they don't need it.
What we find in humans is the amygdala switches on, but because we have our imagination and we can think about all the future things that might go wrong, it doesn't so easily switch off for many of us. We end up worrying about the future or brooding about the past. The amygdala is kept switched on for things that have not even happened yet - we can invent worries.”
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