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Buddhism
a doorway to peace and self-control: Study
London,
May 22: Peace and tranquillity is what every
individual yearns for these days. And if researchers
at the University of California San Francisco
Medical Centre are to be believed, Buddhists are
happier than others and their religion, researchers
claim, is also good for mental health. Experiments
carried out in the United States have revealed
that areas of brain associated with good mood
and positive feelings are more active in Buddhists,
making them calmer than the rest.
The
findings, published in New Scientist magazine, say
that practice of meditation can tame the amygdala,
an area of the brain which is the hub of fear memory.
Buddhists, who meditate regularly, were less likely
to succumb to any sort of shock or confusion, or
to lose temper. "The most reasonable hypothesis
is that there is something about conscientious Buddhist
practice that results in the kind of happiness we
all seek," Paul Ekman, who carried out the study,
was quoted as saying by BBC.
In
a separate study, scientists at the University of
Wisconsin at Madison used new scanning techniques
to examine brain activity in a group of Buddhists.
They found that area of the Buddhist's brain linked
to positive emotions self-control and temperament
constantly lit up and not just when they are meditating.
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