Binaural Beats for Mindful Meditation Can Lead to Increases in Regional Brain Gray Matter Density

You can use binaural beats for mindful meditation to support practice, which is really good because new research shows that mindfulness practice can physically increase the size of gray matter in parts of your brain, and those brain regions are involved in learning and memory processes, emotion regulation, self-referential processing, and perspective taking.

To get deeper about how binaural beats for mindful meditation can help, let us see what the Journal of Psychiatry Research writes:

Mindfulness practice leads to increases in regional brain gray matter density

Abstract

Therapeutic interventions that incorporate training in mindfulness meditation have become increasingly popular, but to date little is known about neural mechanisms associated with these interventions. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), one of the most widely used mindfulness training programs, has been reported to produce positive effects on psychological well-being and to ameliorate symptoms of a number of disorders. Here, we report a controlled longitudinal study to investigate pre–post changes in brain gray matter concentration attributable to participation in an MBSR program. Anatomical magnetic resonance (MR) images from 16 healthy, meditation-naïve participants were obtained before and after they underwent the 8-week program. Changes in gray matter concentration were investigated using voxel-based morphometry, and compared with a waiting list control group of 17 individuals. Analyses in a priori regions of interest confirmed increases in gray matter concentration within the left hippocampus. Whole brain analyses identified increases in the posterior cingulate cortex, the temporo-parietal junction, and the cerebellum in the MBSR group compared with the controls. The results suggest that participation in MBSR is associated with changes in gray matter concentration in brain regions involved in learning and memory processes, emotion regulation, self-referential processing, and perspective taking.

Keywords: MeditationMindfulnessVoxel-based morphometryGray matterMagnetic resonance imagingHippocampusPosterior cingulate

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