Research: Eight Weeks of Meditation Changes Your Brain

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Meditation and Grey Matter | Reiki with Bronwen

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In Usui Reiki Ryoho, meditation is one of the five core elements of the system. Both convergent meditation — focused awareness — and the movement toward divergent open awareness are part of the practice. Whether or not meditation is part of your current Reiki practice, this research reveals what is at the heart of Usui Reiki Ryoho: sitting still changes everything.

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Study Two — The Brain

Eight Weeks Changes Your Brain

Britta Holzel et al. — Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard — Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 2011

8weeks to measurable change

Moregrey matter in memory and compassion

Lessgrey matter in stress centre

MRI scans before and after an 8-week meditation programme showed measurable increases in grey matter in the hippocampus (learning, memory, emotional regulation) and areas associated with compassion. The amygdala, the brain’s stress-response centre, physically shrank. Eight weeks. Measurable. Structural.

Brain Changes After 8 Weeks — What Grew and What Shrank

Usui Reiki Ryoho Connection

In Usui Reiki Ryoho, daily practice is built into the system from the start. Eight weeks of consistent convergent meditation mirrors the beginning student’s commitment. This research confirms that the benefits of sitting still are cumulative and structural, not temporary or imagined.

Holzel BK et al. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 2011; 191(1):36-43 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21071182

If you would like to learn more about what meditation can do for you PLUS learn three supportive meditations begin now with Bronwen’s Meditate NOW on-demand 100 minute webclass.

Bronwen Logan

With over two decades of expertise, Bronwen Logan is one of the leading voices in the system of Reiki. A key founder in both the International House and Shibumi International Reiki Association, she's also penned multiple books on the system including The Reiki Sourcebook; The Japanese Art of Reiki, Beginning Reiki, Beginning Healing, The Art of Gratitude, The A-Z of Reiki, and Your Reiki Treatment as well developing many meditations to support students and teachers in this work. Apart from studying the Japanese aspects of the system, writing and working with animals is a core passion. Bronwen is also a co-founder of Reiki Women Podcast, a blog all about Reiki by women! You can find Bronwen teaching privately online or around the globe!

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