Interestingly enough, I have a clear memory of having spent the week before learning how to meditate on jury duty on an upsetting case, which had left my mind buzzing with the details. After a weekend meditating, all the ‘inner chatter’ had gone and I felt totally relaxed.

Another thing – I don’t know whether it was a coincidence, but before learning, I suffered every month with painful periods – afterwards, never again!

I am now in the early stages of looking at ways of improving memory. Until I read this blog, I hadn’t really thought about the possible role of meditation in that. I’m definitely going to investigate now! Thank you.

The Dalai Lama himself (a rather religious person, I think we’d all agree) has been asking Western scientists to take a good, hard look at what happens to the brain with meditation — and then, to share the information with people who would otherwise simply dismiss meditation as something “religious” or “foreign.”

As a neuropsychologist, looking at this research is intriguing and, more and more, convincing. Even more compelling is the difference I see in the people I work with in my psychotherapy practice.

Thanks for sharing the study. If I may, I invite your readers to visit http://www.ReWireYourBrainForLove.com for a free mindfulness meditation download.

“But what can one do to build a bigger brain? Meditate.”

- which ideally will lead to discussions rather than anyone feeling as if they have or have not received adequate reporting. I am not a reporter. I’m a blogger who shares linked and quoted information that I hope will spark conversations.

Please also see my comment above, which quotes another part of the original Science Daily article that clearly states researchers don’t yet know if the meditation caused more regional gray matter and volume in specific areas, or if the people who meditated already had larger volumes, and understand that this wasn’t ignored information.

The study did not find this.

Correlation is not necessarily causation.

That meditation causes the brain differences is NOT a conclusion compelled by this study. It is one possible, unproven, hypothesis.

This is typical sloppy reporting.