How does Transcendental Meditation change the brain?

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Robert Roth is an executive director of the David Lynch Foundation. In this video Bobby explains how transcendental meditation changes the brain and how the research findings differ from other meditations.

Transcription:
Brain researchers tell us that every single distinct experience changes the brain. If we're learning to play violin it changes one part of the brain. If we're listening to music passively it changes another part of the brain. If we're studying math, another part of the brain if we're shooting free throws, another part of the brain.

So every distinct experience changes the brain. This is very important because brain researchers can now tell us you know, basically you could be in a room with the door closed and they could say oh bobby you're asleep, or you're awake, or you're dreaming, or now you're reading, or you're studying, or whatever.

Transcendental Meditation, this experience of transcending, doesn't change any one part of the brain, but actually wakes up the whole brain. It creates coherence and integration between the two hemispheres of the brain, between the front and back of the brain so the whole brain is now integrated and talking, you could say, to different parts. And this is very important because we can now see how this experience of transcending distinguishes itself from a meditation technique that might involve concentration or control of the mind. So we have a better understanding, from science, of what takes place during Transcendental Meditation.

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