Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain – Sharon Begley
For much of the twentieth century, scientists believed that the adult brain was essentially fixed, unable to change in any significant way after childhood. In Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves, award-winning science writer Sharon Begley explores the discoveries that overturned this view.
The book grew out of a meeting between the Dalai Lama and a group of leading neuroscientists, organized by the Mind and Life Institute to explore neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to change its structure and function in response to experience. Begley describes the research presented at the meeting and the broader scientific work behind it, showing how the brain can reorganize itself, generate new neurons and form new connections throughout life.
Begley explains studies showing how experience, training and even thought can reshape the brain, from people recovering from stroke and blind individuals whose visual cortex adapts to process other senses, to research on depression, emotion and attention. She gives particular attention to studies of meditation, including research involving experienced Buddhist practitioners, which suggest that mental training may influence brain activity linked to attention, compassion and wellbeing.
The book combines clear explanations of science with fascinating stories, exploring the dialogue between Western science and Buddhist contemplative traditions.
Engaging and thought-provoking, Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain is a fascinating read for anyone interested in neuroscience, psychology, meditation and human potential. Research has continued to develop since publication.
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