The ancient technique of mind relaxes meditation. Each of us must go through or at least know any of the meditation technique that includes mindfulness, mantra, and guided meditation. It is an art of focus your mind 100% to one area. The practice comes with a countless well-publicized health benefits including increased decreased anxiety, concentration, and a feeling of happiness.
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There are many meditation methods but according to a research of University of Oslo in Norway, all techniques can be group in two heads – Concentrative meditation and nondirective meditation.
Concentrative meditation:
As the name suggest, in this technique focus is on breathing or other particular thought that restrict the mind to wander here and there.
When subjects (on whom research is conducted) practiced concentrative meditation, their brain activity was nearly the same as when they were resting.
Nondirective meditation:
In this technique also the purpose is to focus whether on breathing or on a meditation sound but the difference from the Concentrative meditation technique is that in Non-directive meditation your mind could wander. Usually the modern meditation techniques fall in this category.
According to the research when participants practiced nondirective meditation, they had higher brain activity in areas connected with processing thoughts related to self and feelings than when they were resting.
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How the mind actually works and responds during meditation is still unknown and the team is working on it.
According to Davanger, “These findings suggest that nondirective meditation allows for more room to process memories and emotions than during concentrated meditation”.