Meditation and Brain

Meditation reduces anxiety and depression. Magnetic resonance imaging shows that those who regularly meditate have cortical thickening in the prefrontal cortex. This thickening is especially notable in older practitioners, who showed significantly less age-related cortical thinning than those who don’t meditate. A robust prefrontal cortex helps inhibit negative emotions generated by the limbic system, the brain’s emotional center. Functional magnetic resonance imaging shows that depressed and  anxious people tend to have overactive limbic systems. Meditation can help build strong prefrontal cortices, which in turn can help modulate an overactive limbic system. These recent findings help explain clinical observation that meditation is beneficial for treating anxiety and depression.

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/513997-what-does-meditation-do-to-the-brain/#ixzz2CXU7VcLu

lazyyogi on proving things and becoming

A lot of the desire to prove things to others is just a need to prove them to ourselves. If we were so confident in these things in the first place, then why bother wasting time convincing others?

I wouldn’t waste a breath trying to convince someone that gravity was real if they didn’t want to believe me. They’ll find out sooner or later. 

The process of becoming is more like a process of learning to Be. Then it just takes care of itself.