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Is your brain more adaptable than you think? Can meditation<\/a> really change your fundamental traits?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meditation and neuroplasticity are closely linked, offering exciting possibilities for personal growth<\/a>. Psychologists Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson contend that our brains can change in response to mental training, potentially altering our basic characteristics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read on to explore how meditation can reshape your brain and transform your life, from the book Altered Traits<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Meditation Induces Neuroplasticity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The brain\u2019s innate ability to adapt<\/a> to stimulation is neuroplasticity<\/a>. Meditation induces this ability, write Goleman and Davidson. After neuroplasticity was discovered, the doors to the scientific study of meditation<\/a> were opened. The authors explain that, when they first pushed to study meditation, the conventional academic perspective was against them. Most serious research scientists thought that meditation was too subjective or woo-woo, and that the mind was a black box\u2014impossible to study rigorously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite this resistance, the authors hypothesized early on that meditation could produce the titular \u201caltered traits\u201d\u2014lasting changes to people\u2019s basic characteristics.<\/strong> Depending on how you meditate, these can include increased stress resilience, emotional intelligence, and cognitive capacities such as attention, focus, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: The authors\u2019 use of the term \u201caltered traits\u201d builds on the conventional way that psychologists use \u201ctraits\u201d to refer to a person\u2019s relatively fixed characteristics<\/a>. The idea that you can alter<\/em> traits runs in the face of long-standing ideas that we don\u2019t and can\u2019t<\/em> change much throughout our lives. While researchers now recognize that traits can<\/em> be altered, as we\u2019ll discuss soon, the fact that this may only happen in response to long-term meditation practice<\/a> suggests that the traditional theories aren\u2019t entirely wrong, either. That is, for most people, traits do remain fairly stable throughout life.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early on, the techniques available to measure the effects of meditation weren\u2019t effective enough. However, the discovery of neuroplasticity<\/em> provided a broad, scientifically viable basis for their research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neuroplasticity is the brain\u2019s ability to change in response to some activity or stimulus. For instance, research on rats found that their brain health<\/a> worsened after they were merely placed closer to unhealthy rats. When it comes to meditation, the discovery of neuroplasticity made it reasonable to claim that meditation could alter the brain. And, as it turns out, the authors explain, the mental training of meditation does<\/em> physically modify the structure, size, and functioning of brain tissue.<\/strong> As a result, traits that relate to those brain changes can shift as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: While neuroplasticity is an exciting and promising discovery, keep in mind that the brain isn\u2019t infinitely plastic.<\/a> As you age, plasticity tends to decline<\/a> in proportion to how actively you use your brain\u2014specifically, by stepping outside of your comfort zone and challenging yourself to develop new skills, cognitive capacities, and so on. If you want to stay mentally fit as you age, meditation is a good way to do so. Other plasticity-stimulating activities include learning a second language<\/a>, learning a musical instrument, or journaling and writing regularly.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Altered Traits Demonstrate How Malleable We Are<\/strong>

These meditation-induced trait effects reveal that the brain is far more malleable than we once believed. Only decades ago, the view was that many of our traits and behaviors were more or less genetically predetermined<\/a> and that they solidified in early development. While neuroplasticity was accepted in basic sensory and motor domains, the idea of radically altered traits has seemed far-fetched until recently.

Today, these deep transformations exhibited by the yogis give legs to the emerging scientific appreciation for just how open and reprogrammable the brain remains throughout life. Given committed practice, even our most entrenched mental patterns can be changed.

This means that if we can establish ways of training these capacities\u2014even at a basic level\u2014in a wider range of people, the potential for human goodness may expand greatly. Put another way, the remarkable brains of these yogis may suggest that human nature can\u2019t be understood as simply as \u201cpeople are fundamentally good or bad,\u201d but that it\u2019s something over which we have a good deal of influence.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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