A study from Michigan State University has shown that meditation that focuses on mental awareness can help improve the brain’s ability to recognize errors. More than 200 participants went through a meditation session while researchers monitored their brain activity.
The type of meditation promoted is known as “open monitoring meditation” which focuses on your mental processes to help participants recognize thoughts. The researchers found that the cognitive ability of the participants to recognize errors increased after the meditation session.
Key Takeaways:
- Michigan State University researchers recently did a study on mindfulness, that is the largest of its kind so far.
- The data from the study suggests that different kinds of meditation can lead to different effects on human neural paths, leading to a variety of altered cognitive states.
- While some forms of meditation focus the meditator outwards, open-monitoring meditation guides the meditator inwards.
“The research, published in Brain Sciences, tested how open-monitoring meditation — or, meditation that focuses awareness on feelings, thoughts, or sensations as they unfold in one’s mind and body — altered brain activity in a way that suggests increased error recognition.”
More details: here
References:
- Conscious Life News (Website)
- WCNC (YouTube Channel)
Leave a Reply