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2. Brain activity and meditation - Wikipedia

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   The effects of meditation on the brain can be broken up into two categories: state changes and trait changes, respectively alterations in brain activities during the act of meditating and changes that are the outcome of long-term practice. Mindfulness meditation, a Buddhist meditation approach found in Zen and Vipassana, is frequently studied.

3. How meditation can calm your brain - AOL

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   And while meditation is a practice, like brain training, mindfulness is just a way of being. ... M.D., worked with Calm on creating a free five-part series of guided meditations.

4. Brainwave entrainment - Wikipedia

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   Brainwave entrainment, also referred to as brainwave synchronization or neural entrainment, refers to the observation that brainwaves (large-scale electrical oscillations in the brain) will naturally synchronize to the rhythm of periodic external stimuli, such as flickering lights, [1] speech, [2] music, [3] or tactile stimuli.

5. Relaxation (psychology) - Wikipedia

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   Relaxation is a form of mild ecstasy coming from the frontal lobe of the brain in which the backward cortex sends signals to the frontal cortex via a mild sedative. [citation needed] Relaxation can be achieved through meditation, autogenics, breathing exercises, progressive muscle relaxation and other means. Relaxation helps improve coping with ...

6. Gamma wave - Wikipedia

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   The proposed answer lies in a wave that, originating in the thalamus, sweeps the brain from front to back, 40 times per second, drawing different neuronal circuits into synch with the precept [sic], and thereby bringing the precept [sic] into the attentional foreground. If the thalamus is damaged even a little bit, this wave stops, conscious ...

7. Effects of meditation - Wikipedia

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   Electroencephalography has been used for meditation research.. The psychological and physiological effects of meditation have been studied. In recent years, studies of meditation have increasingly involved the use of modern instruments, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging and electroencephalography, which are able to observe brain physiology and neural activity in living subjects ...

8. Contemplative neuroscience - Wikipedia

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   Contemplative neuroscience (or contemplative science) is an emerging field of research that focuses on the changes within the mind, brain, and body as a result of contemplative practices, such as mindfulness-based meditation, samatha meditation, dream yoga, yoga nidra, tai chi or yoga.

9. Meditation music - Wikipedia

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   Meditation music is music performed to aid in the practice of meditation.It can have a specific religious content, but also more recently has been associated with modern composers who use meditation techniques in their process of composition, or who compose such music with no particular religious group as a focus.