How does meditation rewire the brain?

How does Meditation rewire the brain? No one know what happens to the individual neurons during Meditation.

However, we can get an idea of how rewiring of neurons occur in a stroke patient.

If the post central gyrus of right side of the brain is damaged during stroke the patient loses the ability to control the left side of his body.

Can the patient still control the left half of his body with a damaged post central gyrus of right side?

If the tone of the left side of a muscle is increased or decreased the patient will feel the altered tone on the right side, which is normal. Soon he will learn to use the muscles on the right side to control the muscles on the paralysed left side. There is undoubtedly rewiring in the brain, with the left half post central gyrus controlling both his right and left halves of the body. The patient then onwards can control both halves of his body.

I have treated a patient with almost one of the brain damaged who could lead an almost normal life. She lived independently and cooked food.

I was practicing Vedic Meditation about two decades back. One day I felt that I no more need to practice it. Yet, the effect of my Meditation two decades back is persisting perfectly.

Therefore, there is undoubtedly rewiring in the brain after Meditation. Since Vedic Meditation is based on muscle tone it is the changes in muscle tone that causes changes in control mechanisms of life that gets rewired in the brain.

Where and how these changes occurs probably science can never know because it is estimated that there are 100 billion neurons in the brain.

Reference: Rangaswamy Sundar Raj