Taking your brain to the gym - 'Neuroplasticity'

​Dear All,

I wanted to quickly share with you some science research that's recently been published in an international journal about the positive effect on your brain of sahaja yoga meditation.

It could explain what many of you begin to notice yourself: that if you meditate for 5-10 minutes a day then it not only improves your positive feelings about life but also helps your powers of attention and concentration - which could get you that promotion at work- as well as somehow improving the quality of your relationships.

The key word in this piece of research is 'Neuroplasticity' (see link below) . This basically means that the brain is not fixed but can be stimulated to make you better at a particular skill by the way you exercise it ie taking your brain to the gym.

An example of Neuroplasticity has been found in London black cab taxi drivers. To get a license to become a London taxi driver, they have to spend 3 years learning all the London roads by heart and then they are tested on it. It's like cramming into your head the whole London A-Z streetmap book. As a result of this massive feat of memory, the region of the cabbies brain responsible for memory, the hippocampus, enlarges itself.(see below).

The neuroplastic effect from sahaja yoga meditation is that it keeps your brain young by stimulating the formation of the brains grey matter as described here.


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The neuroplasticity of the brain from sahaja yoga meditation is potentially profound from a human evolutionary point of view because, according to Shri Mataji in this video clip: Brain Science of the Future , there are certain dormant powers of the brain which start working when the kundalini is awakened.

See you at group meditation on Tuesday.

Regards

What is Neuroplasticity?

Taxi drivers' brain grows on the job