💡HOW DO #MEDITATION, Mindfulness, + Contemplative Practices affect your Brain ? 👉55 sites studying meditation with brain imaging published ENIGMA-Meditation's [1] first paper, out today ! sciencedirect.com/science/ar… [1] a very chill group, see pic ;) 💡join us ! enigma.ini.usc.edu/ongoing/e… Congrats 🪩🎉Saampras Ganesan + Team ! @SaamprasG @sofievalk @enigmabrains @MatthewSacchet @vdcalhoun @NegarFani @njahanshad @ruchikaprakash @dave_vago @AndrewZalesky **The goal of ENIGMA-Meditation is to systematically and reliably characterize the neuroscience of different meditation practices, evaluate commonalities and distinctions between diverse practice forms and stages, and investigate how their neuroscientific substrates relate to psychological, physiological, clinical, and cognitive outcomes. Traditionally, meditation practices were deeply rooted in cultural, religious, and philosophical contexts, primarily focusing on spiritual growth rather than treating mental or physical conditions or enhancing mental capacities. While ENIGMA-Meditation also seeks to explore the neuroscience of meditation within such traditional contexts, the focus of the current paper is primarily on the neuroscience of contemporary, secular adaptations of meditation practices and their benefits on health and well-being. [from the paper] 💡"Meditation encompasses contemplative mind-body practices characterized by diverse techniques, philosophies, and religious traditions ... Broadly, meditation involves purposeful attention, voluntary regulation of psychological and embodied processing, and modulation of conscious awareness ... Meditation practice can enable salutary psychological, psychosomatic and/or spiritual states of consciousness with acute and enduring positive impacts on mood, cognition, and general well-being ... Scientific investigations of meditation have predominantly involved techniques including mindfulness (e.g., present-centered focus with non-judgemental observation of experience), focused attention (e.g., sustaining breath-focused attention), open-monitoring (e.g., continuous, effortless monitoring of experiential content), loving-kindness (e.g., sustained repetition of benevolent thoughts), compassion (e.g., sustained generation of compassionate feeling), mantra (e.g., focus on repetition of a mantra), non-dual awareness (e.g., awareness of awareness, transcending subject-object duality), and their variations..." from sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

New article alert!📢Feeling constantly distracted by your thoughts and feelings? 🧠 Research shows that practicing meditation can help us regain focus and manage distractions. More info here bit.ly/4cmYWyA @SaamprasG @ntvandam BradMoffat @vale_addiction @AndrewZalesky