I regularly advise people to do meditation here, at least 15-20 minutes to practice. But the same people perceive this council as an attempt to avoid solving their problems. I don't want to talk about a hard childhood, but I send it to the Buddha. Moreover, there are those who believe that meditation is for the foolish wimps, and to do it is not to respect oneself.
However, meditation is useful. And not only at the level of reasoning about the eternal and philosophical. Changes occur in the brain, which have a very positive effect on the state of physical and mental health.
In principle, many people know what I will say now. Basically, these are those who are engaged in practice and are interested in this topic. But here is information for those who do not know.
Yes, meditation changes the structure of the brain. As a result of regular practice, the amount of grey matter in the prefrontal cortex, hypo campus, temporal lobe and cingulate gurus increases. Mainly it concerns those parts which provide perception of sound, visual images, feelings arising inside the body, their realization. It also shows the formation of connections between the parts of the brain responsible for sensory stimuli (sound, visual images, sensation, etc.) and emotions.
This helps to better process stressful situations and problems faced by the person.
Quite a pleasant discovery: regular meditation reduces the rate of age-related changes in the frontal cortex in the elderly. A significant difference has been noticed between those who have been meditating and those who have not.
However, there is also a disadvantage. It is suggested that meditation may increase the risk of epilepsy in predisposed individuals. EEG changes during practice are similar to those that develop in patients. But there is only one such study, and there is no reference to live examples of disease development or increased seizure frequency.
Actually, there is no miracle here either. If you do something regularly, the parts of the brain responsible for this activity will grow and strengthen. Skill requires neural support. Another question is what exactly will you do, embroider, play the violin or sing songs.
But if you do not do anything or reduce their activities to a minimum, the brain will understand that built quite quickly.
There is such information that if you were engaged in a foreign language, and left it, then in the course of 3 years, the language skills are rapidly falling and remain at an average of 40% of what you knew at the time of training.
So, meditation is a great way to strengthen the brain where it is needed: in places where the increase of the brain leads to better functioning of the body. And it takes apart the connections where it is not necessary. For example, in those places that are responsible for the negative response to what is happening around them.
So it is a sin not to use this method. Don't miss the moment.