Expert meditators show resilience to pain with no anticipatory anxiety

The tone in an experiment meant that the participants would be zapped with a painful stimulus after 10 seconds/nNon-meditators showed activation in various areas of the brain when presented with the tone, indicating anxiety or anticipation/nExpert meditators showed no significant activation in any area of the pain matrix except for the auditory cortex when presented with the tone/nExpert 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/nThis is the neural signature of resilience, the capacity to rapidly come back to baseline after adversity and showing essentially no anticipatory anxiety