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mr_anderson

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Posted - Nov 19 2013 :  12:15:56 PM  Show Profile  Visit mr_anderson's Homepage  Reply with Quote  Get a Link to this Message
Meditation-induced bliss viewed as release from conditioned neural (thought) patterns that block reward signals in the brain pleasure center

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/2153599X.2013.826717#.UoubJuKQMt6

The paper itself, and here, Gary Weber's interesting blogpost about it:

http://happinessbeyondthought.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/do-drugs-sex-competition-and-meditation.html

"Advanced practitioners experience a large increase (65%) in dopamine levels in the nucleus accumbens during meditative states."

"meditation does not suffer from the all-too-familiar, "down-regulation" of pleasure experienced w/sex, drugs, rock&roll, money, food, etc."

Super interesting stuff.
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