This is your brain on prayer and meditation – Nicole Specter

Prayer and meditation are highly effective in lowering our reactivity to traumatic and negative events. While the reflective regions of the brain are activated, parts of
the brain associated with taking action are inactivated. According to Dr. David Spiegel, associate chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and medical director of the center for integrative medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, who discussed what the brain looks like on prayer. Click here