I went to a talk about meditation and neuroscience from the prof up at stanford last year. There was talk about how we have an instinctive and emotional part of

I went to a talk about meditation and neuroscience from the prof up at stanford last year. There was talk about how we have an instinctive and emotional part of our brain and how we also have an executive control center. One of the points of the talk was how meditation changes the functioning of the braining and reinforces the ability of the executive control center to subjugate the emotional part. Perhaps the years of making efforts regarding this issue strengthened the wiring in your brain until you were able to overcome it?