What Happens To Your Brain When You Meditate
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Evolutionary psychologist Robert Wright explains what happens inside your brain when you sit to meditate and how it can change your perception of the outside world. Wright is the author of "Why Buddhism is True."
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Robert Wright: In real mindfulness meditation, calm isn’t the only object of the game. I mean, it's good. Calm is better than not calm by and large. but the point of having a calm mind is then you can start examining other things that are going on.
You just get a finer view of things and you often see beauty in things you wouldn’t have seen it in.
Now when you turn your attention to what's inside your mind, that's when things can get more therapeutic, in a way. Because one thing you can look as problematic feelings. You’ll feel a feeling surface and the fact that your mind is calm will let you examine the feeling rather than get carried away by it.
So like a feeling of anxiety that might have triggered just a train of unpleasant thoughts and like disaster scenarios won't do that because you're not blindly following it. Instead, you're observing it. And that is the way you handle things inside your head, in general in mindfulness meditation. Thoughts, feelings, etc. Doesn't mean the feelings go away necessarily but it does give you the option of changing your relationship to the unpleasant feelings in ways that not only take some of the unpleasantness out of them but gives you an actual clearer view of the world.
Because face it, anxiety very often gets you to come up with thoughts that are kind of semi-crazy. You know, you're just exaggerating the chances that things will go wrong, you're imagining people are thinking about you, thinking unpleasant things about you. When in fact they just don't care about you that much, they’re probably not thinking about you at all. So it can be very clarifying exercise and is that’s the whole premise of Buddhism. Is that we don't by nature see the world clearly and so meditation is one of the disciplines in Buddhism that helps you see things more clearly.
Meditate is not something easy to do but once you master it, oh man!!!! the greatest feeling in the whole world.
nah it's bullshit that doesn't work. World would be better without it.
Its very simple actually if done correctly u just need the correct guidance
Really?
I don’t think mastery exists
After i meditate i feel a slightly more fresh and healthy
Try brahmanand swarupa chant
me too
Its mind games, it will stop and you'll feel miserable again
cope...?
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Negative Nancy has entered the chat lol.
Meditation has teached me to accept all feelings that I encounter. Wether being happy, sad, dreadful or any other emotion, they are part of my body but are not me. Just because I didn't get enough sleep the night before and I feel depressed, doesn't mean I am depressed. My mind has slowly become an observer of these body sensations and isn't encaptured by them as before.
That’s seriously awesome
Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.
-Bhagavati
Yes
*i have no soul*
Hmm... What's the difference between the two ?
I got an erection
cynthia cardoso very true
What would the world be like if schools had a class strictly for meditation...?
They'd never give up their phones for an hour
RiceFit lol when I was in highschool i used to sleep in class and tell my teacher I was meditating.
JOE BLOE Strangely enough, we have a student here who likes to sleep a lot. So much so that our teacher says she is meditating.
RiceFit worse. One hour of waste
No more school shootings, I can say that for sure.
Kids will be more sympathetic.
I can feel my body pulsing and feels like I am rocking back and forth even though I am still. It feels like I’m dreaming even though my mind is awake. Very amazing.
You break out of the matrix, that’s what happens!!
NRG Energee that was a bad movie
Jesus Mosqueda noooooooo!!!!!!!
NRG Energee
no you will achieve ultra instinct.
Wasn't bad, just wasn't great
NRG Energee damn that hit nearby village
Because of Avatar Aang I was so determine to study meditation, now I really wanted to go into the spirit world, and go to the Oasis pond where the first Avatar Wan got to rest up.
My first time meditating made my whole body buzz dizzy and sleepy
It doesnt matter if your mind is agitated, or your body in pain. You are the still, eternal awareness.
Eternal awareness is hell and torture Meditation is a lie, false hope
That is so very well said.
Your words ?
you will achieve ultra instinct XD.
voιd ѕтar Goku Ultra Instinct
Yeah
Finally a good comment
You need a spirit bomb get thrown at you first
dewa brambang then kaio ken
I’ve been getting into meditation lately, or trying to. I never know if I’m doing it right. I feel extremely relaxed when I’m doing it and I start to see almost psychedelic colours/patterns inside my closed eyes/mind. Does anybody else experience this or am I sounding crazy?!!
That colours and patterns is your energy. Now you can actually see how your energy is flowing that means now you're more focused
@@Rish_Goel what the hell
@@Paul-hl9nz that's true buddy. Go search about it and hear it from gurus
@@Rish_Goel damn I’ve had this for years, it goes crazy when I’m trying to sleep some nights, it’s like moving so fast and crazy shapes, I’ve had anxiety my whole like and I’m just getting into this meditation, will this help my anxiety because I’ve tried everything, feeling very lost
That's not normal because Meditation is a lie. See a doctor
Yes I agree meditation 🧘♂️ doesn't change the problem it self but it give you strength to manage the problem in hand great viedo
Well it should cause otherwise it's pointless
@@flowerpower1528For anyone reading, it isn't pointless, it lets you see much more clearly and lets your thoughts flow better, that is the whole point.
I would be interested in what happens to the brain when you meditate from a neurobiological perspective. I have read that meditation helps in the generation of new brain cells, which is fascinating!
Wow..I will also do meditation... right now my parents r not at home..So I will do meditation for 6hours a day...
@@wintherace108so what are the changes that you found in yourself
Read Dr. Joe dispenzas books. That’s exactly what they’re all about
When I meditate I feel like my consciousness takes a back seat in my mind (I feel very far away). Then I start to feel like my head is both looking down AND looking up - at the same time - very confusing. Then I feel like im floating, I can no longer feel my body - no longer aware where each part of my body is. Then I feel like im spinning - like a spin top. After 8 minutes when I finish my meditation I open my eyes but now I feel disconnected with the world around me and feel a strong urge to lie down and close my eyes. If I just go about my day its like im controlling a body that’s not mine for about 20 minutes until the effect wears off.
Astral projection... I’m trying to do that but keep falling asleep 🤣
I feel alot that I have more a future mindset and better Stress tolerant after I started out with meditation
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Never felt anxiety until he mentioned it 😐
Accurately and well said.
I want proof that, the words he spoke is true,bcs we have 100 videos about meditation and everyone is talking different things
Awesome Tech
🧘 the mind is powerful... nature can help with stress.
Thought the video talked about the chemistry of the brain, still cool tho.
I love meditation, I struggle with it though
Toshi Ezarik I would recommend you to start practising Yog(yoga),it will expedite the process and will make meditation really easy..otherwise it can be painstaking ...best of luck..
@@manikkalore1630 yoga ... hell nah it’s all about the mindset of meditation .if you can see yourself meditating for a period of time in your head you will do it in real life if you believe
Cause it's a lie, these people are liars, don't fall for the lie!
I really needed this video right now. Thank you !!
Brain meditate., just like yoga..😀😀
nice video, none of this was about what happens in your brain though
Whether meditation makes you daring n courageous? Pls ans
Hy, i just wanted to ask, for all of you people who meditate and truly feel meditation's impact on your lives .. How do you do that ? How do you meditate? What are the steps to follow ?..
safae sekkat www.sirimangalo.org/text/how-to-meditate/
What I would do is get some headphones and have some music in the background, once you have got it playing, drift into the music but be aware of your surrounding and don’t think about anything. Good luck.
There are none. It's a lie to give false hope to people
@@GhostOfSparta247 Yes! "... drift into the music..." It works! Better yet, become one with the music!
1.Inhale, hold and exhale your breath.
2. Become an observer of all your feelings don't react to any be still.
3. After times hold your breath more than you Inhale and exhale
Then thanks yourself for taking action. With love from here to there❤
Tech Insider your videos have been amazing lately
I suggest Robert Wright to analyze about Lingayath religion over Buddhism.
And remind never medidatate from other advises whoever no matter, just meditate without any expectations, just see your thoughts till sleep, do this regular only. Without any expectations
Thats bullshit. Brainwash behavior right here folks!
I've been meditating for 16 months, I use guided meditations. Some Long some short, I mix them up. My anxiety is now very much in control, I don't suffer from the depression I was feeling before, if it comes it only stays for a short while, I just ignore the sensations. My Psoriasis has cleared to 95% and I am on 25mg of Sertraline from 50mg 16 months ago. Something profound has happened when my Psoriasis clears, because in 25 years it never did except for a short while with UV therapy and topical steroids. I'm freaked out by what's happening, it's amazing but I can't explain how or why this works other than shutting off the brain to produce Cortisone and Adrenaline which are the principal activators of anxiety, depression and auto immune disorders.
Please dedicate 20 mins of everyday to meditation and see what happens, its free and you have nothing to lose except time, but it's time we'll spent.
Meditation can take you a place you've never seen in this world. Believe me!!!!
k lwin yes it does
It takes you to a world that only shows darkness in front of your eyes...
first of all there is no "world", and no "you"
“In fact those people are probably not thinking about you and no one cares about you at all really”
😥
we practiced meditating at school, well pre-school… aka the forced “nap-time”
U gain Ultra Instinct
"They're probably not thinking about you at all"... Ye... probably...
This happen if your meditating:
Your brain will off slowly (meditate is good) I'm not saying you
Will die if your brain off slowly then you can mediate 30 mins or more the meditate don't work if you just meditate 5 mins so I'm recommendin 30 mins or more
If your asking what will happen after you meditate
All of good thing will be *upgraded* I mean you be smart but not that much some bad things will decrease the bad things I'm saying is your high blood etc
So meditating is so good
Btw something amazing happened while I was meditating, I saw blinks of white light at the back of my eyes. Could it mean I’m pulling in energy around me?
No you loser
You can reach ultra instinct. If you know what I mean
thank you
You need to read “Your are the Placebo”
Masturbation vs meditation
Interesting.
Quick question when i "attempted" to meditate layin in bed i felt everything go black and i felt like i was leaving my body is that good or not good?
Good
Good
Meditation is great and it relaxes my mind but i want to say something that actually made me quite confused, during my first meditation when i deeply meditated i felt like my brain is taking me somewhere else far away from the room iam setting in , i felt like iam dreaming while waking up and i just felt like my mind was swollen suddenly and ifelt iwasnt actually touching the ground so can someone explain because this made me quite scared and confused ☺️❤️
Meditation means to consciously become aware of the present moment thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations, sounds in your surrounding, surrounding kinesthetics like room temperature etc. When you do so your mind relaxes and starts processing pent up feelings and physiological pain or sensations too. So everybody has a different experience. If fear came up for you, or mind wandered it's all the suppressed mind activity getting processed. Just observe them as they come and go, if it's too intense you can switch between listening to a sound in the surrounding and coming back to observing uncomfortable feelings or pain.
Meditation is not that thing people are talking about. Its purpose is to receive blessings/ NOOR from GoD / Allah into our heart in order to make our QULB and other exilri souls enlighten
You're so bored your brain is doing something else because Meditation is so pointless, your brain had to entertain itself
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Kind of like your comment? You’re so bored you need to troll a meditation comment thread to feel better? Did your ex gf blow her meditation instructor or something?
@@flowerpower1528 Studies have shown that consistent meditation can increase your frontal lobe. Go talk from your ass somewhere else
i am 24/7 meditating
Welcome to depersonalisation. Next stop: the analysts couch.
Sleeping is like meditation too
Because your calm down it's quite and seems nothing to bother you
sleeping is without conciousness while meditation is cnciousness
Meditation is not only a part of Buddhism but also a part of Hinduism
How do you meditate though?
Giovanni Rojas www.sirimangalo.org/text/how-to-meditate/
meditation is another word for allowing experience just as it from moment to moment. its not a practice.
I'm so relaxed like now I'm like a bowl of mash potatoe, that's been put in a blender and poured on a slough. Let's be UA-cam mates?
When your meditating, do you think other thing or just focus on ur breathing?
Early notification squad
EXCHANGE THE WORD BRAIN FOR MIND!
Can someone help me? Do you have to be deppressed for something to happen? Or this is just staying in a place and letting things come to the surface so that you could see them from different point of views? I studied meditation when I was a kid, and for me observing my thoughts its like primal. Is it possible to be always meditating when your attention at something is not fully required?
I wanted to know what happens to the brain!
Really on your intuition
Don't know about your brain, but my brain gets really bored.
Good job!
I didn't understand anything
Hello
Words Are not GOOD ENOUGH TO CONVEY WHAT HAPPENS FAR BEYOND MEANING IN MEDITATION....UR EXPERIENCE IS ur personal.
No, something will happened that is totally unable to explain , something very interesting called samadhi, I feeled,
Ok, he made clear the basic stuff about mindfulness, but we need to be honest, not a single point about neuroscience or alike was mentioned.
We have a problem with the clickbait titles, techinsider.
I feel good but feels like my brain is working only 75 % I like I became more careless
Meditation does NOT change the brain
A bounty of research claims that meditation increases gray matter (preserves aging brains), increases cortical thickness (improves mood), and changes self-control areas in the brain (fights addiction).
These studies have not been above reproach, and have been criticized for small sample sizes, inadequate controls, and a failure to be replicated. To address these issues, a well-controlled study of the neurological effects of meditation was recently performed by Kral and colleagues , who found that for short term meditators at least, no structural changes in the brain were demonstrated. The Kral study was unique because it was conducted by true believers in the efficacy of meditation, and admirable that they accepted the fact but did not remark on the implications of their study, which toppled a pillar of the meditation enterprise, that meditation itself could be considered a unique process because of its indirect effects on brain morphology. Of course, they left a final judgement on the neural effects of meditation in abeyance, as they did not consider longer time frames that could indeed demonstrate that meditation builds better brains. Ultimately such a question need not have been answered, as if we conclude that there are no process distinctions between the neuropsychology of relaxation and meditative states, the primary inference would be that relaxation does not build brains, but thinking does, irrespective of whether it is right or wrong.
Kral et al. (2022) Absence of structural brain changes from mindfulness-based stress reduction: Two combined randomized controlled trials, Science Advances, 8, 20, 1-10
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this literally just explains what medication is it doesn’t explain what it does to your brain
What does everyone feels without meditation
pain.
suffering
Just tap the link and listen to that🤒
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ok, but what happens to the brain?
Nothing cause its fake
@@flowerpower1528
There have been numerous studies/research works published in many reputed science journals. Do google about those studies before coming to a conclusion.
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so many religious people in the comments
Mr. Wright is an accomplished journalist and author, but I don't believe he is also a psychologist.
I'm early
The brain becomes a brain
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He literally told us nothing. I at least expected something about chemical reactions in your brain etc, instead its just some old hippy smacking his gums.
he was explaining what meditation can do in terms of emotional and psychological effects.
brandon I bet you are a very negative person
Meditation helps increase your awareness
Brandon May lol
_Truth is only for the ones that truly seek_ Take care my friend
Meditation is one the part of Hinduism and Buddhism originated from Hinduism
Suryansh sinha Na.
joe jackson then?
The meditation the Buddha did before he became enlightened was hindu and from other practices. Once he became enlightened he found out it he was practicing wrong
joe jackson I just want to say ..you got all wrong . But its okay hindu/snatan dharma is very less know thats why you are getting it all wrong.
Jesus is the only way.
the only way for what? Grow up, man. Use your brain too. If you really believe in Jesus, still you don't need to be worrying about him. He lived his life and died. It has nothing to with you or your way. You have your life, a certain amount of energy and time. Just live that to its fullest potential and explore your own way just like Jesus did for him. Just chanting jesus is the way does not help you in any way.
I'm early. Lemme make a joke.
People who annoy me are dubbed cacti by me because they are always such a prick.
I will let myself out.
Alexander...😂 Your attitude and presence is WELCOME!
Meditation is based on religion and psuedoscience
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19 Days into no nut November and I can levitate objects with my mind and can exist, have existed and will exist as a four dimensional being.
Before starting a religion called 'buddhism'. Even the siddharth(lord buddha) is a 'Hindu'.
giving the whole credit to budhism i think is not fair.
meditation spread in whole world by 'Hindus'.
Bhaskar Singh wrong, meditation like that is a buddhist thing, the hinduism practiced a hardcore meditation by hurting your body, like sit on rivers or not eating for a week, not calming your minds
Felix Miller Allow me to say some words about my 'Religion'.
Hindusim is only the religion which has no guidelines or rule book to be a hindu.
you can sit around the river or in comfort of your home.
talking scientifically river has it's own oura(proved in various experiments, even some are done by christians, video is available on you tube). and when it comes to rivers, they always comes from some mountain ranges, whose water has many dissolved herbs in it which is very good for breathing and lungs, works same as vaporubs and breath easy or vapo caps(not talking about the polluted rivers in some cities).
when i give you a big picture of my religion.
Hindusim basically divided into two types of system to live with or live in.
That is 'GRAHAST ASHRAM' and the 'SANYASI'(Both of these system also has no written proves, because my religion is older than the invention of 'lipi'(text).
before it all our knowledge and cultured are pass by 'shruti' (VERBAL SPEECHES)inside which we use to remember some fact and wisdom in form of 'Mantras'.
GRAHAST ASHRAM- under which we can live in comfort of our home, can surf internet, abuse each other in the name of religion, can do any sin except disprecting a 'women' in any kind.
who according to hinduism is the true creator of this world reffered as word 'Jagat-janni'.
under this sytem even if you are uttered name of God once in day you are a true god lover, you can even abuse god like that stupid god had not fulfilled my dream. God will feel happy that atleast you have taken his/her name once.
now comes the,
Sanyasi- under which you have to leave your family and friends, tension and worries, riches and poor,pain or relaxation, hunger or thrust, every thing so far behind that nothing can interrupt your union with that 'God' .
But that is also has some proper system of gurus (teachers) to pass on.
and it is still passed verbally and practicing, with no writen proves because we do believe that god is for every one literature or illiterate.
sorry for the long answer, but 'we are not cruel'.
Bhaskar Singh I am a christian and i learn buddhism as well, i don't think there are rules too if you want to learn buddhism. I love the concept about buddhism. And also i read about Hinduism, is just not for me
Bhaskar Singh I'm sorry but ganga rivers is polluted, you can see it in a lot of article talking about it. And i'm not really understand how can a "cow" become something sacral in the name of religion
Bhaskar Singh what i like about buddhism is that, there's no something holding our fate even gods. We make our own destiny and we will reap what we sow. There's no something powerful that we must scared of, control our live and how we live, we live as free as we want as long we don't do anything wrong and i don't like the caste concept. We can be whatever we want no need a caste system to seperate us
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Why is a Caucasian explaining meditation and not an Indian?
This is a pseudoexplanation for a pseudoscience.
He didn't mention a citation even.
شامي خانة تمانة yea
Terrorist شامي خانة تمانة
Islamists fear anything that is foreign to them
شامي خانة تمانة you bitching about it because it's not your religion, mekkah is the center of this earth is the biggest bullshit that all the muslims believe, how can you spot the center of the ball
Well, there is no need for one. I am a meditation practitioner for some years now. What Robert simply means in this video is that by observing your thoughts and feelings , you may be able to not act on them. To realize its practicality, one just needs to sit for 10 mins and observe the mind.
Of course , there are much higher claims on how meditation changes the brain structure and genetic structure but this video does not mention any . There is sufficient research backing these too.
This man is looking drug addicted
Quick answer: nothing. U r wasting time.
Don't you know muslim slaught by buddhist monk in rohingnya myanmar ?
If you know the real thing about muslim, real muslim's prayer is a progress of meditation too. At least in suffism
Norman Sani don't you know innocent people are slain by muslim too . What's your point ?
Wow you’re very informed aren’t you? I’m curious, can you state which Buddhist teaching they are acting out by doing this? Wait you can’t because there aren’t any. What we see in Myanmar is basic tribalism not religious extremism.
do you know, that moeslem propaganda already washed up your brain?.
try clean it with meditation.
Neither muslims or buddhists are killer. I believe all religion taught about love, it's just the people who claimed to be on any religion and done something immoral.
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The first video that actually explains how meditation works. Its not some monk making his lifes work sound like building a god damn rocket
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