
The Neuroscience Of Yoga And Meditation - Dr Sara Lazar, PhD
The Weekend University
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How Does Mindfulness Work?
We put people in the emori scanner, and we applied a very mild electric shock to their hand. And then that had been rigt, both the intensity and the unpleasantness. What we saw was basely the exact opposite of what we saw wit placibo. So you literally don't feel the pain, because it's just not going to those parts of the brain That figure out, o what's the intensity? The more they practised, n the more years of practice they had, the more those two regions weret not talking to each other. It's separating the two completely, so that you can, youcan just experience it.
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