The science in meditation

Knowledge of Today

Did YOU know that Meditation is scientifically proven to:

1. Overcome stress (University of Massachusetts Medical School, 2003)
2. Boost your creativity (ScienceDaily, 2010)
3. Improve your sex life and increase your libido (The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 2009)
4. Cultivate healthy habits that lead to weight loss (Journal Emotion, 2007)
5. Improve digestion and lower blood pressure (Harvard Medical School)
6. Decrease your risk of heart attack (The Stroke Journal, 2009)
7. Help overcome anxiety, depression, anger and confusion (Psychosomatic Medicine, 2009)
8. Decrease perception of pain and improve cognitive processing (Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2010)
9. Increase your focus and attention (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007)
10. Increase the size of your most important organ – your brain! (Harvard University Gazette, 2006) Brainwave technology gives you deep, effortless, enjoyable meditation in minutes: http://goo.gl/gL1cU

 

Bodyscan Meditation: De-Stress Completely

Bodyscan Meditation – YouTube.

19 minutes full body meditation to help us cope in these stressful times.

Human Brain Can Consciously Change the Temperature of the Body

Human Brain Can Consciously Change the Temperature of the Body.

June 2, 2013

http://www.learning-mind.com

Singapore scientists made a surprising discovery with the help of monks from Tibet. According to the Science Daily, a conscious increase of the body temperature as a result of meditation was first recorded.

The researchers observed the monks during meditation. Despite the temperature of about 25 degrees below zero, their clothes soaked through. But right in front of the astonished scientists, the Buddhists began to dry their wet clothes with their own body temperature, which was 38.3 degrees.

Monks made themselves warm from the inside by a meditative technique named “Tummo” – the Yoga of inner fire. In short, it is powerful visualization of the inner fire burning behind one’s back and some breathing exercises. In order to master this technique, Buddhists sit on the snow trying to melt as much of it as possible with the heat of their body. As a result, the monks who have attained some success in the “Tummo” technique are absolutely impervious to cold temperatures.

A similar experiment was conducted by the SingaporeUniversity professor Maria Kozhevnikov. Although the conditions were more benign, the experiment did produce some results.

According to Kozhevnikov, the “Tummo” helps bring your body temperature back to normal.It is an absolutely safe technique that is practiced not only by monks but also by quite ordinary people. There are advanced teachers who can reach almost an infinite increase of their body temperature, feeling a powerful burst of energy.

And this is how the “Tummo” is described by a Tibetan Buddhist teacher Malarep: “equilibrate the variations of red and white at the navel center, and the mind will fill with comprehension, experiencing the warmth as bliss…”

From a scientific point of view, this phenomenon has not yet been explained, despite some attempts. For example, in 1981 and 2000 Herbert Benson of the HarvardUniversity managed to ascertain that the Tibetan monks can raise the temperature of the fingers and toes of more than 8 degrees Celsius.

Silence the mind

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Don’t Hate. Meditate

Research study shows how meditating helps brain cope with pain

Tao & Zen

“In a recently published imaging study, people with a long-time meditation practice appeared better able to cope with pain than those who didn’t meditate. As reported on USA Today’s Web site:”By using a laser to induce pain, [Christopher Brown from the U.K's University of Manchester] and his team found that activity in certain parts of the brain seemed to dip when the study participants anticipated pain. With that observation he was able to establish that those with upwards of 35 years of meditation under their belt anticipated pain the least.
In particular, meditators also seemed to display unusual activity in the prefrontal cortex region of the brain that is known for regulating attention and thought processes when a person feels threatened.“The results of the study confirm how we suspected meditation might affect the brain,” explained Brown. “Meditation trains the brain to be more present-focused and therefore to spend less time anticipating future negative events. This may be why meditation is effective at reducing the recurrence of depression, which makes chronic pain considerably worse.”Article source:
http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2010/06/14/meditation_and_pain/

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Chants of Tibet – Om Mani Padme Hum

Chants of Tibet – Om Mani Padme_Hum – YouTube.

Something different from the roof of the world. Peace to all.

The Universe is the game of the Self

The Universe is the game of the Self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever

– Alan Watts

The Age Of Awareness

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Mindfulness 101 – 2 min video

Jon Kabat-Zinn: What is Mindfulness? – YouTube.

Jon Kabat-Zinn discusses what mindfulness and meditation are really about: presence of heart.

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The ordinary man is living a very abnormal life

The ordinary man is living a very abnormal life, because his values are upside down. Money is more important than meditation; logic is more important than love; mind is more important than heart; power over others is more important than power over one’s own being. Mundane things are more important than finding some treasures which death cannot destroy.

– Osho

The Age Of Awareness

Human consciousness can evolve

Human consciousness can evolve. At the innovative margins of society it is already evolving. A holistic view is taking shape, one that sees the human being as an organic whole, embedded in the socio- and culture-sphere, embedded in turn in the wholeness of the biosphere.

Evolving our consciousness is not something we do only for ourselves – it is something we also do for others…for all others, and for the earth. Because we open up and let our body and mind feel the ties with others and with nature, we change ourselves, and change others around us.

When a sufficient number of people pray or meditate together, or find another path to evolve their consciousness, other people are affected as well. When many people open up, a powerful force develops – a leap of consciousness takes place…

~Ervin László~

Artwork by Andrey Renkli

Creative Systems Thinking

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