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Fearproof Your Brain, Stress-Inoculation Tips, The Marriage Of Meditation & Technology, Digital Sleeping Pills & Much More

Ben Greenfield Life

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The Neuroscience of Meditation

meditation can help your prefrontal cortex and its ability to down-regulate the amygdala. A long-term meditation practice, however, can significantly reduce your cortisol levels. Meditation also has impact on your corpus colossum, which is the part of your brain that connects your left and right hemisphere. And it increases activity in the TPJ, the temporal parietal junction,. So the ability to switch points of view from you to somebody else.

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