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Meditation Increases Brain Size

May 13, 2006 By Graham English

People who meditate grow bigger brains than those who don’t. Researchers at Harvard, Yale, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found the first evidence that meditation can alter the physical structure of our brains. Brain scans they conducted reveal that experienced meditators boasted increased thickness in parts of the brain that deal with attention and processing sensory input.

I’m sure this isn’t big news to any meditator. Of course we alter the biochemistry of our brains through meditation practice. Take, for example, the left planum temporalus. It is an organ within the left temporal lobe which deals with nuances of word meaning. In my research on absolute pitch, I found an article published in Science magazine that people who have absolute pitch have a left planum temporalus that’s twice the size physically of that organ in other people. And absolute pitch is a skill that can be learned through practice.

But this news could be a good selling point for meditation.

Bigger = Better

My girlfriend did her Harvard thesis on meditation. I’m sure she could chime in on this.

I also found this the other day:
How to use everyday mindfulness or zazen to make your life more enjoyable.:

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Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: Absolute Pitch, brain, Harvard, meditation, Science, zazen, zen

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Comments

  1. Craig Photography says

    May 18, 2006 at 8:44 AM

    Thanks for the info: Keep up the great bloging – Peace

  2. Jake says

    August 16, 2006 at 10:52 AM

    Since when does size count? I thought it was what you did with it.

  3. Graham English says

    August 16, 2006 at 1:52 PM

    Ha ha. 🙂

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