Spiritual Practices including Meditation & Forgiveness
Meditation Increases Size of Hippocampus! (MGH study Jan 2011)
- Just 30 minutes a day for 2 months! Practicing “mindfulness.”
- Meditation enlarged the grey matter in the left hippocampus involved with
- verbal memory and
- memory of language
- Empathy
- Sense of self
Meditation improves brain health – decreases stress
- MGH study also showed that Mindfulness medication decreases part of brain related to stress –in the amygdala.
- Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, January 2011, Britta K. Hölzel, James Carmody, Mark Vangel, Christina Congleton, Sita M. Yerramsetti, Tim Gard and Sara W. Lazar
