The meditators gained insight into how their minds work.

冥想者能够洞悉他们思维运转的模式。

For instance, neuroscientists working alongside meditators have changed the way we think about our sense of self.

例如，与冥想者一起工作的神经学家已经改变了我们对自我感觉的看法。

Meditators who started with particularly low scores showed virtually no such boost.

而一开始指数就很低的人，几乎没有这样的奇效。

For instance, neuroscientists and meditators work together again to understand another mysterious phenomenon Spontaneous thoughts.

例如，神经学家和冥想者再次合作来理解另一个神秘的现象自发的想法。

Scientists again turn to meditators in particular, those with experience and focus meditation.

科学家们再次转向冥想者，特别是那些有经验和专注冥想的人。

Maybe the people who completed it were just those who were, like, experienced meditators.

也许完成它的人只是那些经验丰富的冥想者。

Like the meditators do, she said controlling your breathing might help a lot.

就像冥想者所做的那样， 她说控制你的呼吸可能会有很大帮助。

Things that you would find the terminology really similar to things that you’ve heard advanced meditators describe.

您会发现术语与您听到的高级冥想者描述的事情非常相似。

In a 2004 study, neuroscientist looked at what was happening in the brains of both experienced and beginner meditators while they practiced loving-kindness meditation.

在2004年的一项研究中，神经学家观察了有经验的冥想者和初学冥想者在练习“爱的善良”冥想时大脑中发生了什么。

I know all of those feelings because, as a meditator, I've experienced all of those, in stillness.

我知道所有这些感受，因为作为冥想者，我在静止中体验过所有这些。

And the researchers found that when meditators were experiencing that sense of non-duality or oneness, more parts of their brains were active than usual.

研究人员发现，当冥想者体验到这种非二元性或同一性时，他们大脑的更多部分会比平时更活跃。

Lots of people, from ancient monks to modern meditators, have figured this tool out and use it all the time.

很多人， 从古代的僧侣到现代的冥想者，都想出了这个工具并一直在使用它。

Well, Sam, in fact the experiment showed that 30 minutes of meditation a day significantly increased feelings of loving kindness in the new meditators too!

嗯，萨姆，事实上实验表明，每天30分钟的冥想也能让冥想新手的善心显著提高！

And a lot of meditators call this the non-dual state, because you no longer have the separation between self and world.

许多冥想者称之为非二元状态，因为你不再有自我与世界之间的分离。

In this study non-meditators joined a group of seasoned meditators and they were all subjected to varying levels of pain, sometimes intense.

在这项研究中， 非冥想者加入了一组经验丰富的冥想者，他们都遭受了不同程度的疼痛， 有时是剧烈的。

Unsurprisingly, the meditators reported experiencing less pain, and the scientists believed this was related to how they managed to slow their respiratory rate.

毫不奇怪，冥想者报告说疼痛减轻了，科学家们认为这与他们设法减慢呼吸频率有关。

By generating and sending out the compassionate wish, 'May all beings be happy', Buddhist meditators change their brain circuits-different parts of the brain responsible for different functions.

通过产生和发出富有同情心的愿望，“希望所有人都幸福”，佛教冥想者改变了他们的大脑回路——大脑里负责不同功能的不同部分。

And when we studied the brains of experienced meditators, we found that parts of a neural network of self-referential processing called the default mode network were at play.

当我们研究资深冥想者的大脑时，我们发现了神经网络里面 「自我指认流程」的部分被称为「预设模式的网络」正在产生引响。

Now, a lot of the collaborations between neuroscientists and meditators are aimed at figuring out how certain experiences manifest in the brain, which might not seem that illuminating.

神经学家和冥想者之间的很多合作都是为了弄清楚某些经历是如何在大脑中显现的，这可能看起来不是很有启发性。

A lot of people who get into the state think this or are associated with enlightenment, I suspect it's a favorite training goal for a number of meditators.

- 很多进入状态的人都认为这或与开悟有关，我怀疑这是许多冥想者最喜欢的训练目标。