By Julie Wilcox — 2012
It is likely that you have neither heard of nor experienced yoga nidra, which might just be the answer to your sleepless nights.
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Are you having unusually realistic dreams? Here’s what science can tell you.
Whenever we learn something new, pick up a new skill, or modify our habits, the physical structure of our brain changes.
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The meditation-and-the-brain research has been rolling in steadily for a number of years now, with new studies coming out just about every week to illustrate some new benefit of meditation. Or, rather, some ancient benefit that is just now being confirmed with fMRI or EEG.
When neuroscientists tested expert meditators, they discovered something surprising: The effect of Buddhist meditation isn’t just momentary; it can alter deep-seated traits in our brain patterns and character.