Summary and Impact - Essay Example

The article This Is Your Brain on Meditation covers an interesting research connected with brain activity in the process of meditation conducted by the team of scientists from different world universities. Researchers identify two different types of meditation. Concentrative meditation requires an effort to focus on breathing or a particular thought. Nondirective meditation is based on effortless concentration of breathing or feelings. Researchers use MRI to track brain activity during meditation and compare it with brain activity when people rest.

The study shows that brain activity visibly increases in the process of nondirective meditation; however, it remains almost the same during concentrative meditation. Researchers explain these results by the fact that nondirective meditation allows more space for different thoughts and feelings in it which concentrative meditation is restricting them. Only 3 researchers involved in this study practice meditation to cope with daily stress. Stress follows people everywhere and they need to cope with it somehow.

Since this article proves that meditation works, I can try to practice it in my daily life to come down during critical moments. I find this article useful because I often suffer from own inability to deal with stressful events effectively. As a result, I experience problems with falling asleep or feel nervous during the day. Out of two types of meditation described in the article, I would like to practice concentrative meditation first because it seems to be more understandable for me. Perhaps, meditation or simple concentration on breathing will improve my coping strategies.

Works Cited“This Is Your Brain on Meditation”. Biology News Net. May 15, 2014. Web. May 24, 2014.