Brain power: Even Genetic Perversion is set right

Prof. K.S. Vashishtha (Retd. Principal Scientist)

Research findings are going to change conventional thinking about the brain that it can not change or grow. Dr. Doidge in his book The Brain that changes itself writes “I saw people rewrite their brains with their thoughts to cure previously incurable obsessions.

Positive thinking can change the way the brain works. Changes can be brought about by repeated mental exercise like meditation.

University of Wisconsin neuroscientist Richard Davidson demonstrated that when he measured the brain activity using brain scans such as PET and functional MRI, of highly practiced Buddhist monks, when the monks meditated on “Unconditional loving kindness and Compassion, they generated Powerful gamma waves – the type involved in higher brain process like “Consciousness.” Thus the repeated mental activity of meditation alters brain functioning for clean correct meditation.

Question arose how, exactly, repeated thought activities alter the brain? For one they can affect DNA Genes. Researches done have shown that positive thinking or meditation can turn our occurs , but Doidge states, “ When you go for positive thinking ,repeatedly ,genes turn to make proteins that change the structure of the neurons and make them better and correct communicators.