Stress and its rude cousin distress follow us day in and day out these days. Whether it is Monday or it is Friday, there is always something to worry about. Little bit of periodic stress is good for us. It helps us to get going, optimize immune system and sharpens thinking processes. But only ifRead more
PARMJIT SINGH, PhD
Sara Lazar, a neuroscientist at Harvard, whose research has illuminated the brains areas which change with the practice of meditation was speaking to The Washington Post last year about her experience of doing meditation and the benefits she accrued from it. She is the same lady whose studies have shown that regular practice of meditationRead more
What happens to brain under meditation? Mindfulness meditation has a way of working on different important circuits of the brain. For example, when we are trying to stay present to the coming and going of the breath (our object of attention in this case), following four different circuits* are being worked on constantly: When mindRead more