I bet your doctor won't create a stroke protocol based on this for at least 30 years. Don't do this on your own, you know how dangerous meditation is.
http://www.feelguide.com/2014/11/19/harvard-unveils-mri-study-proving-meditation-literally-rebuilds-the-brains-gray-matter-in-8-weeks/
Test subjects taking part in an 8-week program of mindfulness
meditation showed results that astonished even the most experienced
neuroscientists at Harvard University.
The study was led by a Harvard-affiliated team of researchers based at
Massachusetts General Hospital, and the team’s MRI scans documented for
the very first time in medical history how meditation produced massive
changes inside the brain’s gray matter. “Although the practice of
meditation is associated with a sense of peacefulness and physical
relaxation, practitioners have long claimed that meditation also
provides cognitive and psychological benefits that persist throughout
the day,” says study senior author Sara Lazar of the MGH Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program and a Harvard Medical School instructor
in psychology. “This study demonstrates that changes in brain structure
may underlie some of these reported improvements and that people are
not just feeling better because they are spending time relaxing.”
Sue McGreevey of MGH writes: “Previous studies from Lazar’s group and
others found structural differences between the brains of experienced
meditation practitioners and individuals with no history of meditation,
observing thickening of the cerebral cortex in areas associated with
attention and emotional integration. But those investigations could not
document that those differences were actually produced by meditation.”
Until now, that is. The participants spent an average of 27 minutes
per day practicing mindfulness exercises, and this is all it took to
stimulate a major increase in gray matter density in the hippocampus,
the part of the brain associated with self-awareness, compassion, and
introspection. McGreevey adds: “Participant-reported reductions in
stress also were correlated with decreased gray-matter density in the
amygdala, which is known to play an important role in anxiety and
stress. None of these changes were seen in the control group, indicating
that they had not resulted merely from the passage of time.”
“It is fascinating to see the brain’s plasticity and that, by
practicing meditation, we can play an active role in changing the brain
and can increase our well-being and quality of life,” says Britta
Hölzel, first author of the paper and a research fellow at MGH and
Giessen University in Germany. You can read more about the remarkable
study by visiting Harvard.edu.
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