Spirituality and our Brain – Spiritual Psychology
Spiritual Psychology is an emerging science in field
of spiritualism and psychology. There is couple of researches on effect of
meditation on body. A new collaborative study between professors at Columbia
University and the New York State Psychiatric on powerful and positive effects
of meditation on human body and the brain has been now taking these findings
one step further. In their findings they have found a direct correlation
between the levels of importance of a person places on spirituality in their
lives and the thickness of certain regions of their brains.
The study found that the people who are strongly
believe in their tradition and religion and who are spiritual in accordance to
their religions had significantly thicker cerebral cortices—a part of the brain
rich in highly active neural networks responsible for sensory perception,
language and emotion processing—than those who did not.
MRI scans of 103 adults of ages 18-25 were used in
this study. All participants were asked to rate the importance of spirituality
or spiritual values in their lives. Now the participants who were more inclined
to their spiritual values had measurably thicker cerebral cortices compared to
those who did not. The latter group was found to be more prone to depression.
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