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A Meditation Scientist Changes My Mind
A Slight Change of Plans
Expert meditators show resilience to pain with no anticipatory anxiety
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- The tone in an experiment meant that the participants would be zapped with a painful stimulus after 10 seconds
- Non-meditators showed activation in various areas of the brain when presented with the tone, indicating anxiety or anticipation
- Expert meditators showed no significant activation in any area of the pain matrix except for the auditory cortex when presented with the tone
- Expert meditators showed a big response in the sensory regions of the brain during the painful stimulus, but returned to baseline immediately after the stimulus stopped
- This is the neural signature of resilience, the capacity to rapidly come back to baseline after adversity and showing essentially no anticipatory anxiety
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