PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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Meditation is a way that you could be healthier and happier. Although some religious and cultural traditions embrace meditation as a powerful spiritual practice, modern medical research has traditionally scoffed at alternative treatments. Overall, the data suggest that regular meditation fundamentally changes how our brains work and that its activation is related both to the emotions we feel and to how we respond to stressful events. The researchers surmised that meditation makes people more open to experiencing positive emotions and less reactive to negative emotions with the overall effect of decreasing their anxiety and improving immune functioning- all of this without drugs! We may be born with a certain physiology that may cause us to develop certain traits, but the environment can modify aspects of our personality. Perhaps the best way to think of our physiology is as a package of potentialities for personality traits that may be devekoped, discouraged, or even modified by our experiences.
