Prayer Worship and Meditation III: Long-Term Meditators' Brains functioning differently

 

Here is another fine article on the positive long-term physiological effects of meditation.

https://www.mindful.org/meditators-under-the-microscope/

 

Here MRI brain scans and EEG help reveal the significant changes in how the brain of long-term meditators actually functions. The principle author of the research, Richard Davidson, is also the author of the groundbreaking best seller, Emotional Intelligence.

Davidson tells us that not only does the brain of long term meditators function differently, but the experience during meditation changes the way the brain functions during non-meditation periods. 

"...as you continue practicing, the things you saw happening during the state itself become part of your way of being. They become traits.”

 

And even short-term meditators can experience the benefits:

" Still another study, from the University of California, Santa Barbara, revealed that merely eight minutes of mindfulness practice improved concentration and reduced mind-wandering. The researchers also found that mindfulness had a dramatic effect on working memory—the facility we have to manipulate stored information in order to reason and make decisions in a timely manner. One group of students that underwent a two-week course in mindfulness training boosted their scores on their GREs—the graduate school entrance exams—by more than 30%."

"In one key MIT study, researchers found that volunteers who took an eight-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program had a far greater ability to focus on their sensations than a control group that hadn’t done the training. Another study at the University of Wisconsin showed that only 10 minutes of breath-counting helped offset the damaging effects on concentration of heavy-duty multitasking. ...

"Stress is another area where the evidence is particularly convincing. In one landmark study, researchers at Emory University gave volunteers an eight-week course of mindfulness training, then showed them upsetting photos to see how they responded. The result? A significant lowering of activity in the amygdala, the part of the brain that triggers the freeze- fight-or-flight response....

"A third area with solid results is the study of compassion. According to Davidson, compassion practices, such as loving-kindness meditation, work very quickly, sometimes producing effects in as little as eight days of practice. “That doesn’t mean these effects are going to last,” he says, “but it implies that kindness may be an intrinsic part of the mind. What the practice does is reacquaint us with that quality in ourselves so that we can make it more accessible.”

 

The experience of meditation changes how you think and how your brain functions, according to this research:

 

So, what is your practice and experience?

 

 

 

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[777]

"A third area with solid results is the study of compassion. According to Davidson, compassion practices, such as loving-kindness meditation, work very quickly, sometimes producing effects in as little as eight days of practice."

IT MIGHT BE A LITTLE LONGER BUT NOT ALWAYS

I told in the other blog ( but was probably deleted - I cannot check every move of the xenophobe owner there - Imagine he was in politics or Social items )

So I told of a satsangi now and she heard the Sound immediately
without any meditation
I guess that happens when the practice was done sufficiently in one or more
former lives

It changes everything

It makes whole Nature in Blossom and Bloom said Adi Granth
and yes it is

Here is a little DELETE again


Peter Carruthers suggests that we are actually observing pre-canned thoughts, and inner dialogue / monologue, rather than generating actual thoughts as things stimulate those thoughts.
Fascinating article, Spence. I "just thought" of an exchange in RS Magazine
years ago in which the question was asked if even our dialogue, seemingly
so much in the "here and now", is destined and Maharaji responded:
"Did you think this would be a silent drama?"
Posted by: Dungeness | 12/22/2018 at 08:23 AM



ONE. means GOD , . . Shabd Vibration
WE. are THAT
All Saints said that
starting with Zarathrusta, Melchizedek , . . I once placed a list
What else could we be ?
Check it out !
<3
777

Posted by: 777 | 12/22/2018 at 08:52 AM

PS today :

BEFORE ABRAHAM , WE ARE. 💙💙. 1

[777]

Little question
Is it Spence. writing the lead articles here ?

[777]

Spence . . . if so . . are you independent . . . you have the password etc. ?
or can brian again interfere here

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[Spence Tepper]

Hi 777
This blog is independent, as I set it up separately. Though it is really, in some ways a branch of Church of The Churchless.

Brian's perspective, at least what I've learned of it, does inform and in some ways is part of the charter of this blog.

I consider Brian Hines one of my beloved teachers, along with Gurinder, Jesus and Charan.

[777]

I see him more as
hitler who produced good high ways
but destroyed a lot ( for a reason)

Here I copy
some lines I placed
and will probably deleted

So :

-- A feeling of "I" is also an appearance in consciousness. It feels a certain way to feel you are directing attention. Drop back and be the space in which that feeling too is arising. Is there a center of consciousness?

Posted at 08:10 PM in Spiritual practice/meditation | Permalink
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So... what’d ya think then...

Posted by: Metolius Mark | December 30, 2018 at 08:48 PM

I should have said it inverse

The Chakra system forms the gene ( body )

Posted by: 777 | December 30, 2018 at 10:35 PM

[777]

Another deleted one

***
You are God restrained Incognito
Your task is not to hurt another like that
Make Fun
It's up to U how much knowledge your minuscule IQ can eat
You have actually also the exit out of all this ( I mean many bodies, many brains) but you don't 'need' using it
Having fun and do the Sound is a lot to fill your life
One Command : Never HURT
777

Posted by: 777 | December 22, 2018 at 05:02 AM

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[777]

BTW
Only a total ignoramus with ill-intention names this "preaching"

It's true for ALL religions and non religions
and everybody except the Salem wise guy agrees

777