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Meditation makes you smarter. Pass it on.

Specifically, your brain physically changes (for the better) in 8 weeks.

Harvard neuroscientist Sara Lazar put people with zero meditation experience through an 8-week program. MRI scans showed measurable increases in grey matter density in regions associated with learning, memory, and emotional regulation - and measurable shrinkage of the amygdala, the part of the brain responsible for fear, anxiety, and the fight-or-flight response. Eight weeks, not eight years. Seems like something worth doing/

Source: Harvard Gazette - Eight Weeks to a Better Brain
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/01/eight-weeks-to-a-better-brain/

Sara Lazar's work showed that even 8 weeks meditation measurably improved brain function across a variety of brain regions.


Source: https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/local/brain-researcher-sara-lazar-visits-mu-to-share-research-on-meditation-yoga/article_74fa1129-1634-531c-acd7-b5995dbc7b49.html

One implication of this study is that in a bear market, the part of your brain that panics during a 50% drawdown is physically smaller. Probably nothing.