004 - Meditation, Wellness, and Your Brain
Tiny Leaps, Big Changes
Gregg Clunis
4.3 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2016
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about meditation, wellness, and how it can actually change the physical characteristics of your brain. Sit back and go to your happy place because you are now listening to Tiny Leaps, Big Changes.
You will hear:
- What meditation can do for the gray matter in your brain
- How meditation makes you a better decision maker
- Why we are often anxious or scared when there is no need to be
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Resources:
psychologytoday.com/blog/use-your-mind-change-your-brain/201305/is-your-brain-meditation
psychologytoday.com/articles/200105/the-science-meditation
iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/science-meditation
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode we talk about meditation and how it can actually change the physical characteristics of your brain. |
| 0:08.0 | So sit back and go to your happy place because you are now listening to Tiny Leaps, big changes. |
| 0:15.0 | Big change! |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps Big Changes, where I share simple research |
| 0:29.1 | back strategies you can use to get more out of your life. My name is Greg Klunis and about two years ago my girlfriend and I went to northern Manhattan to visit the Cloisters. |
| 0:41.0 | Now for those of you who have never been to the Cloisters it's a part of the Metropolitan Museum and it was designed and built with elements from different abbeys and monasteries throughout Europe. |
| 0:52.0 | As I was walking up the stairs to enter the museum, |
| 0:55.0 | I honestly felt a little bit overwhelmed. |
| 0:58.0 | It has a massive presence and the place is completely secluded. The corridors and the gardens, they feel just like you would assume a monastery should feel. |
| 1:08.0 | They're big, they're open, and they're overflowing with plants and centered by numerous fountains. Now two years later as I sit down to write this episode all about meditation. I can't help but think back to it. How amazing it must have been to meditate in a place just like that. |
| 1:27.0 | It's high above the city, completely secluded, and it boasts beautiful nature all around you. |
| 1:33.0 | As I mentioned in episode three, |
| 1:35.2 | meditation isn't something I actively practice right now. |
| 1:38.7 | But after doing the research for this episode, |
| 1:41.6 | I'm honestly convinced that every single one of us should. in the just 10 to 15 minutes every day, the world would be a much better place. |
| 1:55.8 | But you know that I don't make big claims like that with nothing to back it up. |
| 1:59.6 | So let's dive straight into the research. Here's something interesting. |
| 2:07.8 | Meditation actually changes the physiology of your brain. |
| 2:12.2 | I know, that's crazy, crazy right we've all heard that |
| 2:15.2 | meditation can help us to focus more or be more mindful whatever that means but it |
| 2:21.0 | turns out that sitting down in silence for as little as 10 minutes per day |
| 2:25.7 | can actually have a very interested effect on the gray matter in our brain. |
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