Re: Found the true cause of AF
"Seriously,
this is the AF forum. Please respect those people here who are sensitive to
stress enough to at least try to write in a kind and thoughtful manner."
I haven't found any of those here yet. Also be aware that all messages
in this thread are cross posted to other forums including Anxiety. If you
have read my posts you will find that I have cured PTSD - including anxiety,
with meditation. I've been practicing a daily one or more hour per day
meditation for more than thirty years. It beats the oral fixation type of
cure that includes many on CZ as well as the medical community.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/08/meditation-beats-anxiety-brain-regio...
Meditation Beats Anxiety By Activating Certain Brain
Regions, Study Finds
Mindfulness meditation -- nonjudgmental awareness of thoughts and emotions --
is known for its anxiety-busting powers, and now scientists are getting a better
understanding of why it has this impact in the brain.
Researchers from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center found that meditation has
effects on activity of particular brain regions, namely the anterior cingulate
cortex -- which controls thinking and emotions -- and the ventromedial
prefrontal cortex -- which controls worrying. Meditation seems to increase
activity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, and decrease activity in the
anterior cingulate cortex.
"Mindfulness is premised on sustaining attention in the present moment
and controlling the way we react to daily thoughts and feelings," study
researcher Fadel Zeidan, Ph.D., a postdoctoral research fellow in neurobiology
and anatomy at the medical center, said in a statement. "Interestingly, the
present findings reveal that the brain regions associated with
meditation-related anxiety relief are remarkably consistent with the principles
of being mindful."
The study, published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective
Neuroscience, included 15 people who had normal levels of everyday anxiety (with
no history of anxiety disorders) and who had never meditated before. The
participants underwent brain scans to track their brain activity at the start of
the study, and also had their anxiety levels measured, before taking classes to
learn how to do mindfulness meditation.
After the training -- which consisted of four 20-minute classes --
researchers measured the participants' anxiety levels again, and also had them
undergo brain scans again.
Researchers found that anxiety levels decreased by up to 39 percent after the
mindfulness meditation training, and that those decreases in anxiety seemed to
be linked with the activation and deactivation of particular brain regions.
"These findings provide evidence that mindfulness meditation attenuates
anxiety through mechanisms involved in the regulation of self-referential
thought processes," the researchers wrote in the study.
Posted: 06/08/2013 10:35 am EDT