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It is my WordPress Anniversary!
So, I want to recall the most important contribution that I think I found about the truth. Meditation promotes well-being by reducing stress, depression, anxiety, blood pressure, addiction, by boosting immune systems and by improving our memory.
Forty years ago, Matthieu Ricard, a French genetic scientist left an intellectual life, moved to India and took up a study of Buddhism. He is now a western scholar of religion and he was recently claimed by brain research scientists to be the happiest man on the planet.
His daily routine of meditation made possible amazing brain scans demonstrate that if he is meditating on compassion, Ricard’s brain produces a level of gamma waves never before reported within neuroscience literature.
While his is the pinnacle of measures, you to may change your brain. You have the capacity to heal including all of your emotional confusions. If you set out to accomplish this, you can gradually increase your awareness and your inner peace by mindfulness. You can transform your brain, create new neural circuits and change the way your brain neurons more efficiently will communicate with each other.
This post is just an extract really – you might want to look at Meditation Changes Brains!
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see: Meditation Changes Brains!.
this is empirical evidence…
about Meditation benefits.
These are FACTS:
Meditation helps with Stress
Meditation helps with Anxiety
Meditation helps with Hypertension
Meditation helps with drug abuse
Meditation helps with ADHD
Meditation helps with depression
Meditation helps with Asthma
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Thanks for visiting.
Eric
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“Unheard Of” Brain Activity While Meditating
http://higherperspectives.com/monk/
Light at the Edge of the World
The Buddhist Science of the Mind
Tibetan Buddhism in Nepal
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investigative tradition;
empirical evidence over scriptural authority
experience, reason and testimony
There’s no notion of sin, there’s no notion of good and evil, there’s only ignorance and suffering. And this is the most important thing, it places all emphasis on compassion; you do not embrace negativity. Buddhism asks the fundamental question: What is life and what is the point of existence?
see also:
Harvard Study Unveils What Meditation Literally Does To The Brain
An eight week study conducted by Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) determined that meditation literally rebuilds the brains grey matter in just eight weeks. It’s the very first study to document that meditation produces changes over time in the brain’s grey matter.
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/12/11/harvard-study-unveils-what-meditation-literally-does-to-the-brain/
explore more from Matthieu Ricard here:
Matthieu Ricard
Buddhist monk, photographer and author
http://www.matthieuricard.org/en/blog
Happy anniversary Eric 🙂 I’m glad that you’re here!
Happy Birthday Eric :). Looking forward to many more insightful posts and observations.
I had NO idea you had only been blogging for a year. Your insights, compassionate and aware posts made me think you had been doing this for much, much longer. Congratulations.
I did blog at other places before wordpress. TY
Congratulations Eric, and keep on meditating.. Peace to you my friend Sue
Happy Anniversary Eric 🙂
happy first dear eric. a true sincere person if ever there was one.. eve
Thank you Eve. A year is past. I hadn’t any expectation even to be blogging much since when I moved to wordpress. It seems I made the best of the move. I’m off now to get some sleep. Blessings. ~ Eric
Congrats! My research into the koren helmet “god helmet” proved futile because they already did the experiments to prove that stress and depression changes the brain chemicals. The FDA did approve of this last Dec.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulation
so my research is obsolete. But because the TMS is a higher magnitude, the side effect could be seizures. Being unable to meditate, I guess my next step is to increase the serotonin, but I really really need a good rush of dopamine!
I like your new profile/garvatar.
Mindfulness need not require great rigor – maybe try a variation of one or both of these:
https://hunt4truth.wordpress.com/2014/05/11/five-steps-to-mindfulness/
https://hunt4truth.wordpress.com/2013/07/26/morning-meditation/
Happy Blogiversary!
As a recovering drug addict I can attest to the positive aspects of meditation. One of my counselors prodded me toward it a few yrs ago, and it helps!!
I love all this info on neuroplasticity! Off to meditate…
Thanks!
I love how neuroscience research is confirming what the sages have always known and what some of us have discovered for ourselves.
This begins a powerful new wave towards awakening 🙂
Val
If you view carefully the youtubes available from Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D. on biology and our fractal biological nature – I think you will be very amazed that the power of mindfulness may in time actually bring about unprecedented DNA and molecular advancements – in average people that simply apply themselves. INTRO:
Congrats on the milestone. Nice video!
Thanks!
amazing isn’t it!!!
Yes, I like blogging more as time passes.
THANKS FOR VISITING!
Happy anniversary Eric! 😀
Thanks!
congratulations!
Thanks!
As usual, great sharing, Eric. Thank you.
Thanks! I want to feature your work again. Let me know if you want to feature a part in particular.
Please visit my new blog if possible, hope you like it 🙂
http://ajaytaobotanicalblog.wordpress.com/
thank you so much dear 🙂
Congratulations! Wish you many more years of blogging to come! 🙂
Thanks!
Congratulations on the first anniversary.
Thanks!