KNOW Y-OUR BRAIN

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                                         KNOW Y-OUR BRAIN

know WHY our BRAIN is UNIVERSE?

  

1.-HOW MEDITATIVELY WE CAN KNOW OUR BRAIN

2.-SOME AMAZINGLY SCIENTIFIC BRAIN FACTS

The sound of OM encompasses all words, all sounds in human language
 
OM is a matrix of all sounds, when in its diversified form gives rise to all words used in language.
 
Linguistically, all audible sounds are produced in the space within the mouth beginning at the root of the tongue and ending at the lips. The throat sound is A, and M is the lip sound; and the sound U represents the rolling forward of speech articulation which starts at the root of the tongue, continuing until it ends in the lips.

What happens in your brain when you meditate???

This is where things get really interesting. Using modern technology like fMRI scans, scientists have developed a more thorough understanding of what’s taking place in our brains when we meditate, kind of similar to how scientists have previously looked at measuring creativity in our brains.

The overall difference is that our brains stop processing information as actively as they normally would. We start to show a decrease in beta waves, which indicate that our brains are processing information, even after a single 20-minute meditation session if we’ve never tried it before.

In the image below you can see how the beta waves (shown in bright colors on the left) are dramatically reduced during meditation (on the right).

Below is the best explanation I found of what happens in brain during meditation:??

Frontal lobe
This is the most highly evolved part of the brain, responsible for reasoning, planning, emotions and self-conscious awareness. During meditation, the frontal cortex tends to go offline.

Parietal lobe
This part of the brain processes sensory information about the surrounding world, orienting you in time and space. During meditation, activity in the parietal lobe slows down.

Thalamus
The gatekeeper for the senses, this organ focuses your attention by funneling some sensory data deeper into the brain and stopping other signals in their tracks. Meditation reduces the flow of incoming information to a trickle.

Reticulated formation

As the brain’s sentry, this structure receives incoming stimuli and puts the brain on alert, ready to respond. Meditating dials back the arousal signal.

How meditation affects us

Now that we know what’s going on inside our brains, let’s take a look at the research into the ways it affects our health. It’s in fact very similar to how excersicing affects our brain..!

Better focus

Because meditation is a practice in focusing our attention and being aware of when it drifts, this actually improves our focus when we’re not meditating, as well. It's lasting effect that comes from regular bouts of meditation.

More creativity

As a writer, this is one thing I’m always interested in and we’ve explored the science of creativity in depth before. Unfortunately, it’s not the most easy thing to study, but there is some research into how meditation can affect our creativity. Researchers at Leiden University in the Netherlands studied both focused-attention and open-monitoring mediation to see if there was any improvement in creativity afterwards. They found that people who practiced focused-attention meditation did not show any obvious signs of improvement in the creativity task following their meditation. For those who did open-monitoring meditation, however, they performed better on a task that asked them to come up with new ideas.

 

Better memory

One of the things meditation has been linked to is improving rapid memory recall. Catherine Kerr, a researcher at the Martino's Center for Biomedical Imaging and the Osher Research Center found that people who practiced mindful meditation were able to adjust the brain wave that screens out distractions and increase their productivity more quickly that those that did not meditate. She said that this ability to ignore distractions could explain “their superior ability to rapidly remember and incorporate new facts.” This seems to be very similar to the power of being exposed to new situations that will also dramatically improve our memory of things.

 

Less stress

Mindful meditation has been shown to help people perform under pressure while feeling less stressed. A 2012 study split a group of human resources managers into three, which one third participating in mindful meditation training, another third taking body relaxation training and the last third given no training at all. A stressful multitasking test was given to all the managers before and after the eight-week experiment. In the final test, the group that had participated in the meditation training reported less stress during the test than both of the other groups.

More gray matter

Meditation has been linked to larger amounts of gray matter in the hippo campus and frontal areas of the brain. I didn’t know what this meant at first, but it turns out it’s pretty great. More gray matter can lead to more positive emotions, longer-lasting emotional stability and heightened focus during daily life.

Meditation has also been shown to diminish age-related effects on gray matter and reduce the decline of our cognitive functioning.

Getting started with Meditation

Here’s a great info graphic that gives an overview of the different kinds of meditation and some tips for fitting in meditation at work.

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Brain facts  

   The Mozart Effect has been debunked. While listening to certain kinds of music can improve memory and concentration,there’s nothing unique about listening to Mozart.

·         No pain. There are no pain receptors in the brain, so the brain can feel no pain.

·         Read aloud. Reading aloud and talking often to a young child promotes brain development.

• ·         First sense. The first sense to develop while in utero is the sense of touch. The lips and cheeks can experience touch at about 8 weeks and the rest of the body around 12 weeks.

• ·         Unconsciousness. If your brain loses blood for 8 to 10 seconds, you will lose consciousness.

• ·         Speed. Information can be processed as slowly as 0.5 meters/sec or as fast as 120 meters/sec (about 268 miles/hr)

• ·         Stress. Excessive stress has shown to "alter brain cells, brain structure and brain function.

• ·         Love hormones and autism. Oxytocin, one of the hormones responsible for triggering feelings of love in the brain, has shown some benefits to helping control repetitive behaviors in those with autism

• ·         Food and intelligence. A study of one million students in New York showed that students who ate lunches that did not include artificial flavors, preservatives, and dyes did 14% better on IQ tests than students who ate lunches with these additives.

• ·         Tickles. You can’t tickle yourself because your brain distinguished between unexpected external touch and your own touch.

• ·         Imaginary playmates. A study from Australia showed that children with imaginary playmates between the ages of 3 and 9 tended to be first-born children.

• ·         Reading faces. Without any words, you may be able to determine if someone is in a good mood, is feeling sad, or is angry just by reading the face. A small area in the brain called the amygdala is responsible for your ability to read someone else face for clues to how they are feeling

• ·         Super tasters. There is a class of people known as super tasters who not only have more taste buds on the tongue, but whose brain is more sensitive to the tastes of foods and drinks. In fact, they can detect some flavors that others cannot.

• ·         Decision-making. Women tend to take longer to make a decision, but are more likely to stick with the decision, compared to men, who are more likely to change their mind after making a decision.

• ·         Exercise. Some studies indicate that while some people are naturally more active, others are naturally more inactive, which may explain why getting out and exercising is more difficult for some.

• ·         Boredom. Boredom is brought on by a lack of change of stimulation, is largely a function of perception, and is connected to the innate curiosity found in humans.

• ·         Physical illness. The connection between body and mind is a strong one. One estimate is that between 50-70% of visits to the doctor for physical ailments are attributed to psychological factors.

MEMORY

• ·         Jet lag. Frequent jet lag can impair your memory, probably due to the stress hormones released.

• ·         New connections. Every time you recall a memory or have a new thought, you are creating a new connection in your brain.

• ·         Create associations. Memory is formed by associations, so if you want help remembering things, create associations for yourself.

• ·         Scent and memory. Memories triggered by scent have a stronger emotional connection, therefore appear more intense than other memory triggers.

• ·         Anomia. Anomia is the technical word for tip-of-the-tongue syndrome when you can almost remember a word, but it just won’t quite come to you.

• ·         Sleep. While you sleep at night may be the best time for your brain to consolidate all your memories from the day.

• ·         No sleep. It goes to follow…lack of sleep may actually hurt your ability to create new memories.

• ·         World Champion. A world champion memorizer, Ben Pridmore memorized 96 historical events in 5 minutes and memorized a single, shuffled deck of cards in 26.28 seconds.

• ·         Estrogen and memory. Estrogen (found in both men and women) has been shown to promote better memory functions.

• ·         Insulin. Insulin works to regulate blood-sugar in the body, but recently,scientists have discovered that its presence in the brain also helps promote memory.

·         Famous Brains

• ·         People have always been fascinated with the brains of famous people. Find out what experts know about these famous brains.

• ·         Albert Einstein. Einstein’s brain was similar in size to other humans except in the region that is responsible for math and spatial perception. In that region, his brain was 35% wider than average.

• ·         London taxi drivers. Famous for knowing all the London streets by heart, these drivers have a larger than normal hippo campus, especially the drivers who have been on the job longest. The study suggests that as people memorize more and more information, this part of their brain continues to grow.

• ·         VI Lenin. After his death, Lenin’s brain was studied and found to have an abnormally large and numerous neurons in a particular region that may explain his "strikingly acute and penetrating mental processes" for which he was famous.

• ·         Oldest brain. A brain thought to be 2000 years old was unearthed just recently at the University of York in northern England.

• ·         Babe Ruth. The Babe was tested by two Columbia psychology students and was determined to be working at 90% efficiency compared to the 60% efficiency measured for most people.

• ·         Daniel Tam-met. Daniel Tam-met is an autistic savant who, since the age of three when he suffered an epileptic seizure, has been able to perform astounding mathematical computations, knows seven languages, and is developing a language of his own.

•          Keith Jarrett. This jazz musician was discovered at age 3 to have perfect pitch, which scientists can pinpoint in the right frontal lobe.

·         Dreams and Sleep

• ·         The amazing world of dreams and what happens during sleep is a mystery rooted in the brain. Learn interesting facts about dreams and sleep in this list.

• ·         Everyone dreams. Just because you don’t remember your dreams doesn’t mean you don’t dream. Everyone dreams!

• ·         Nightly average. Most people dream about 1-2 hours a night and have an average of 4-7 dreams each night.

• ·         Brain waves. Studies show that brain waves are more active while dreaming than when you are awake.

• ·         Lost dreams. Five minutes after a dream, half of the dream is forgotten. Ten minutes after a dream, over 90% is forgotten. Write down your dreams immediately if you want to remember them.
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• ·         Blind people dream. Dreams are more than just visual images, and blind people do dream. Whether or not they dream in pictures depends on if they were born blind or lost their vision later.

• ·         Color or B&W. Some people (about 12%) dream only in black and white while others dream in color.

• ·         Virtually paralyzed. While you sleep, your body produces a hormone that may prevent you from acting out your dreams, leaving you virtually paralyzed.

• ·         Snoring. If you are snoring, you are not dreaming.

• ·         During a dream. If you are awakened during a dream, you are much more likely to remember the dream than if you slept until a full night’s sleep.

• ·         Symbolism. As those who invest in dream dictionaries can attest, dreams almost never represent what they actually are. The unconscious mind strives to make connections with concepts you will understand, so dreams are largely symbolic representations.
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• ·         Adenosine. Caffeine works to block naturally occurring adenosine in the body, creating alertness. Scientists have recently discovered this connection and learned that doing the opposite–boosting adenosine–can actually help promote more natural sleep patterns and help eliminate insomnia.

• ·         Dream showings. Japanese researchers have successfully developed a technology that can put thoughts on a screen and may soon be able to screen people’s dreams.