But this unusual research not only solve the mystery of a harmonious life, but also information about some of the world's mysterious diseases?
Zoran Josipovic, a scientist and Professor at New York University, says he has been peering in the brains of the monks, while in an attempt to understand how your brain reorganize meditate during the exercise.
Since 2008, has been the researchers place the heads and bodies of the prominent Buddhist in a five-ton (5, 000 kg) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine.
The scanner track heads like they meditate blood flow within the monks within its chunky, which is a musical rhythm, if the machine works.
Dr. like some meditators reach a State of "non duality" or "Unity" with the world, to find a unifying consciousness between a person and their surroundings Les, which also as a Buddhist monk Kreitzberg, says that he is hope.
The study deals specifically with the default network in the brain that controls self-reflexively thoughts"One thing, the meditation for those is that much practice, that it wont synesthetic skills", says Dr. Les, added that this harnessed skills can help to lead peaceful and happy way of being.
"Meditation research, especially in the last 10 years or so has proved to be very promising, because it brain refers to the ability to modify and optimize we knew not, so it was possible before."
If one relaxes in a State of oneness, change of neural networks in experienced practitioners as the psychological wall between themselves and their environments, low Dr Les says.
And this reorganisation in the brain to what some meditators claim to a deep harmony between itself and its environment that may cause.
Shift of attentionDr Les research is to understand better part of a larger, what scientists have dubbed the default network in the brain.
He says the brain will be organized in two networks: the network extrinsic and the intrinsic, or standard, network.
During the study, Dr. Les has scanned the brains of more than 20 experienced meditators.The outer part of the brain is active, if drive of people exposed to external processes, such as sport or a cup of coffee are casting.
The default network pitchers if questions to reflect, themselves and their feelings.
But the networks are rarely fully active at the same time. And how, if you move up, the other one a see-saw dips down.
This neural Setup allows individuals is easier on a task at any time, is consumed without distractions such as daydreaming.
"What we are trying to do, is in fact the changes in the networks in the brain follow the person between the modes of attention shifts", says Dr. Les.
Dr. Les has found that some Buddhist monks and other experienced meditators have the ability both to keep neural networks at the same time during the meditation active - that is, they have found a way, at the same time raise both sides of the see-saw.
And Dr. Les believes this ability to the migration of the internal and external networks in the brain at the same time, the monks lead a harmonious feeling of unity with which to experience their environment.
Self-reflectionScientists believe that before self-reflexively, default network in the brain simply was not a task one that a person, their attention had was active.
But researchers have in the past ten years, in this section of the brain with activity swells when the topic of which even thinks found.
The default network came to light in 2001 Dr. Marcus Raichle, neurologist at Washington University School of medicine in the U.S. began State of Missouri, scanning the brains of people who had to carry out not tasks.
The patients were quickly bored, and Dr Raichle noticed a second network that previously gone unnoticed, danced with activity. But the researchers was not clear why this activity occurred.
Other researchers were quickly out that Dr Raichle actually could have considered issues themselves.
Continue reading the most important storyit is a large and researched network in the brain, which seems very involved in many neurological disorders, including autism and Alzheimer's disease to be "end quote Cindy Lustig University of Michigan, Associate Professor of Neurology soon other neuroscientists", the studies carried out with films to stimulate the brain, found that if there was a lull of activity in a film, the default network began Flash - signaling that research topics to think can have started from boredom.
But Dr. Raichle says the default network is important for more than just thinking about what you had for dinner last night.
"Researchers we, who are we fought this idea as we know, are." The default network mode says something about how, might be coming, "he says."
And Dr. Raichle adds that those studying the standard network in detection can help mental disorders such as depression, autism, and even of Alzheimer's disease the secrets to some.
"If you look, and you see one on Alzheimer's disease, whether you attacked a certain part of the brain, what amazing is, that, in fact, the default network mode, attacked you," says Dr. Raichle, add that intrinsic network research, such as Dr Les, could explain, why this means support.
Cindy Lustig, Associate Professor of psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Michigan, agrees.
"It is a large and researched network in the brain that seems to be a lot of neurological disorders, including autism and Alzheimer's disease, and understand, as this network interacts with the task-oriented [extrinsic] network involved is important", she says. "It's kind of the other part of the puzzle, which has too long been ignored."
Dr. Les has scanned the brains of more than 20 experienced meditators, monks and nuns studying the Tibetan Buddhist meditation, better style primarily understand this mysterious network.
He says his research, which will be published soon, for the moment will continue to focus on the neurological consequences of oneness and peace explained - although the understanding of autism or Alzheimer's on the way would certainly a bonus.
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