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Old 26-03-2011, 08:47 AM
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Originally Posted by snas View Post

Warren, this from Wikipedia may interest you, although I suspect you probably already know that this sort of thing occurs:
Buddhist monks who do compassion meditation have been shown to modulate their amygdala, along with their temporoparietal junction and insula, during their practice.

Stuart
Hi Stuart,

I have had a very small hint of this while Meditating though in no way to the level of the monks mentioned and I usually can control my reactions to events much better than I could before I started practising Buddhism.
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