Areas of the brain responsible for maintaining focus and processing emotions were also more
active during meditation, and the activity was highest in the volunteers who reported the greatest reductions in pain.
Not exact matches
«When you initially learn mindfulness
meditation practices, you have to cognitively work at it — especially
during a stressful task — and, these
active cognitive efforts may result in the task feeling less stressful, but they may also have physiological costs with higher cortisol production,» Creswell explained.
They found that when meditators of several different traditions reported feelings of «effortless doing» and «undistracted awareness»
during their
meditation, their PCC showed little activity, but when they reported that they felt distracted and had to work at mindfulness, their PCC was significantly more
active.
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