It apparently does not take years or even months of practicing meditation to fundamentally alter neural activity. Just a few weeks can make a difference — for the better.
The shift in brain activity "was clearly evident even with a small number of subjects," said Christopher Moyer, Ph.D., one of Anderson’s coauthors at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
"If someone is thinking about trying meditation and they were thinking, ‘It’s too big of a commitment, it’s going to take too much rigorous training before it has an effect on my mind,’ this research suggests that’s not the case." For those people, meditation might be worth a try, he said. "It can’t hurt and it might do you a lot of good."
"I think this implies that meditation is likely to create a shift in outlook toward life," Anderson said. "It has really worked for me."
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