Take some time out to relax and calm your mind through meditation at Karuna.
A guided session, going through the skills necessary to develop your meditation capability and enhance the quality of your daily life. Newcomers are especially welcome.
- Venue: 27 Cartwright Street, Windsor QLD. 4030
- Cost: By Donation
- Dates: Mondays 4pm to 5pm & Tuesday evenings 6pm -7pm
Please join us. You will be very welcome!
Cost is by donation.
Brain Benefits From Meditation
Previous research indicates that long-term meditation practice is associated with altered resting EEG patterns, suggestive of long lasting changes in brain activity. We* hypothesized that meditation practice might also be associated with changes in the brain’s physical structure.
Magnetic-resonance imaging was used to assess cortical thickness in twenty participants with extensive Insight meditation experience, which involves focused attention to internal experiences. Brain regions associated with attention, interoception, and sensory processing were thicker in meditation participants than matched controls, including prefrontal cortex and right anterior insula. Between-group differences in pre-frontal cortical thickness were most pronounced in older participants, suggesting that meditation might offset age-related cortical thinning. Finally, the thickness of two regions correlated with meditation experience.
These data provide the first structural evidence for experience-dependent cortical plasticity associated with meditation practice.
*Lazar SW, Kerr C, Wasserman RH, Gray JR, Greve D, Treadway MT, McGarvey M, Quinn BT, Dusek JA, Benson H, Rauch SL, Moore CI, Fischl B. “Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness”. NeuroReport 2005; 16:1893-1897 November 28, 2005.
