This is Your Brain on Meditation

Meditation can be defined as willfully and purposefully regulating one’s attention, either for relaxation, self-realization, or growth and transcendence. This willful and purposeful regulation of attention can be broadly defined in two categories.  1) Focusing attention on a changing object (body scan, progressive muscle relaxation, or a movement practice such as yoga) 2) An unchanging repetitive object which is continuously …