Philadelphia - Buddhist monks and Catholic nuns boost their brain power through meditation and prayer but even atheist can enjoy the mental benefits that believers derive from faith according to a popular neuroscience author.
The key, Andrew Newberg argues in his new book "How God Changes Your Brain" lies in the concentrating and calming effect that meditation and calming effects that meditation/intense prayer have inside our heads.
Brain scanners show that intense meditation alters our gray matter strengthening regions that focus the mind and foster compassion while calming those linked to fear and anger.
Be aware, whether the meditator believes in the supernatural or is an atheist repeating a mantra. the outcome can be the same- a growth in the compassion that virtually every religion teaches and a decline in negative feelings and emotions.
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