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Meditation and Energy; Power up your Brain

20 Wednesday Aug 2014

Posted by Hunt 4 Truth in Consciousness, Culture, DNA, Happiness, I can improve today, Inner peace, Meditation, Mindful, Self-improvement

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This time, I want to share a video that delves into what people are saying about their progress of evolving by meditations – it ought probably give us a sense that meditation is a system, sure; beneficial too, yes; but also that meditating is very personally experienced.

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Meditation and the Power of the Mind – YouTube
Published on May 2, 2012 A documentary that explores the practice of meditation and it’s effect on the mind and body.

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Meditation Changes Brains!

Grounded

Energy within

Five steps to mindfulness

We exchange energy – always

How Energy Travels in the Body

Change Your Frequency = Change Your Reality

Mindfulness training downloads (free)

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Thanks for visiting.

 Eric

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How Meditation Changes Our Brains

06 Sunday Jul 2014

Posted by Hunt 4 Truth in B4Peace, Consciousness, Culture, Faith, Happiness, Health, Inner peace, Inspiration, Meditation, Memory, Mindful, Peace, Self-improvement, Spirituality

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It is my WordPress Anniversary!

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I registered on WordPress one year ago!

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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.Ricard

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!.

FINDINGS Related to anxiety…
this is empirical evidence
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about Meditation benefits.
These are FACTS
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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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Meditation Changes Brains!

23 Sunday Mar 2014

Posted by Hunt 4 Truth in B4Peace, Consciousness, Culture, Faith, Happiness, Health, I can improve today, Inner peace, Inspiration, Lessons, Meditation, Mindful, Peace, Philosophy, Science, Self-improvement

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Matthieu Ricard is the world’s happiest man; according to researchers. That’s not even the amazing part… so, here is a short but comprehensive look…

at meditation benefits and basics…

spend 20-60 minutes here.

Bloggers, readers, meditation and mindful practice is AMAZING! Astounding!

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According to Ricard …

“In the Western world, meditation means sitting under a mango tree in a blissed out state. The prevailing idea is that you have to sit down and empty your mind. It’s not that at all. You have to clean up a bit. We have so many wandering and intrusive thoughts. So you have to be in control of your own mind. Meditation means inner freedom. Inner freedom doesn’t mean following every chain of thought. It’s like a sailor who takes the helm and decides where to sail instead of drifting with the current. If you want to generate particular state of mind, you do what it takes.”

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“There was a lot of activity in his left prefrontal cortex which indicates a huge capacity for happiness; this man is very unlikely to be making negative choices about his experiences,” says Neuroscientist Richard Davidson 

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“Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree but it completely changes your brain.” 

The French genetic scientist left an intellectual life 40 years ago and moved to India to study Buddhism. He is now a western scholar of religion.

His daily routine of meditation made possible amazing brain scans that demonstrate that if he is meditating on compassion, Ricard’s brain produces a level of gamma waves never before reported within neuroscience literature.

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NOW, here begins the really amazing part Gamma brain wave production is associated with consciousness, attention, learning and memory. We want to train our brains to increase peace and serenity and this changes the brain — It’s like we come into unifying Loving Light… after time… the brain changes (maintenance required).

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FINDINGS His skull was wired up with 256 sensors at the University of Wisconsin and its all been recorded — he’s got a happy and joyous mind — no doubt. Scans found excess activity in his brain’s left prefrontal cortex compared to its right counterpart, giving Ricard an abnormally large capacity for happiness.

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FINDINGS A larger volume of a specific brain structure generally increases the abilities to carry out specific functions associated with that structure. This is widely accepted based on the assumption that greater numbers of neurons will produce larger outputs and therefore may be more influential than smaller numbers of neurons.

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FINDINGS Researchers in neuroscience demonstrate that the prefrontal cortex plays a responsible role in forming of expectations based on actions and social control, predicting of outcomes, future consequences of activities, working toward goals, development of abilities to differentiate among conflicting thoughts, abilities to determine same and different and better and best. Abilities to suppress urges that may lead to socially unacceptable outcomes are developed by this area of the brain. Meditation boosts learning ability, improves brain functioning, and reduces stress!

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Even people meditating for the first time will register a decrease in beta waves, a sign that the cortex is not processing information as actively as usual. After 20 minutes there is a huge decrease in beta activity — these brains are learning to be highly focused.

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Matthieu Ricard: “Compassion is not just some high-minded flaky concept that Buddhist monks and New Age hippies bandy about, it’s a very practical way to operate in a world that is incredibly stressful for just about everyone.” 

FINDINGS Mindfulness meditation, one type of meditation technique, has been shown to enhance emotional awareness and psychological flexibility as well as induce well-being and emotional balance. Scientists have also begun to examine how meditation may influence brain functions. This talk will examine the effect of mindfulness meditation practice on the brain systems in which psychological functions such as attention, emotional re-activity, emotion regulation, and self-view are instantiated. We will also discuss how different forms of meditation practices are being studied using neuroscientific technologies and are being integrated into clinical practice to address symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress..

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Need help or want to collaborate with me? Just e-mail me at thehunt4truth@yahoo.com 

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Share this one around… its time to change this world, one brain at a time… each to their own.

Let’s rid the world of social anxiety:

NOTE: Social anxiety is linked to anxiety, panic attacks, depression, psychosis (not otherwise specified), drug use, alcohol use, spontaneous violence, outbursts, character flaws, behavior problems, anger and rage; to name just a few dis-eases.

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Let’s work on it together… mindfulness is a tool for awakening mental health.

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FINDINGS Related to anxiety… 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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Personally, I am sure that practicing mindfulness meditation with some expert therapeutic guidance  can speed healing of PTSD and possibly DID; maybe even NPD, BPD, and possibly even schizophrenia.

Meditation can speed recovery from grief.

It will probably heal some Anxiety NOS and episodic Depression.

Mindfulness can greatly decrease panic episodes… maybe cure it.

It can reduce Bipolar and Uni-polar disorder symptoms.

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  • Study shows mindfulness training can help reduce teacher stress and burnout (news.wisc.edu)
  • Is this the world’s happiest man? (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Calming the Mind (freemeditation.com)
  • Meditation Offers Lasting Peace (scienceblog.com
  • The Power of Meditation and How It Affects Our Brains (blog.bufferapp.com)
  • What Happens To The Brain When You Meditate (lifehacker.com.au)

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This post presents facts; benefits of mindfulness and meditation. Take some time… invest in your well-being

and… share this one around.

Other WordPress Peace bloggers:
http://wordpress.com/tag/b4peace/
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Thanks for reading.

 Eric

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peace dalai

11 Monday Nov 2013

Posted by Hunt 4 Truth in Consciousness, Culture, Faith, Happiness, Health, Inner peace, Lecture, Lessons, Peace, Philosophy, Spirituality

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awareness, B4Peace, compassion, consciousness, coping, Courageous peace, Dalai Lama, empathy, happiness, joy, non-violence, Peaceful mindedness, Secular, Self-confidence, serenity

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“I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.” 

~ Dalai Lama The Art of Happiness

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The Dalai Lama teaches happiness

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Excerpt from a public talk
The Way Toward Inner Peace
by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
by FilmPRO, Italy
Organizer: Ven. Thamthog Rinpoche ~ Ghe Pel Ling
Director/Cinematographer: Matteo Passigato
Youtube watch?=-psluirNDJc

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Thanks for learning with me.

 Eric


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meditation changes brains

22 Sunday Sep 2013

Posted by Hunt 4 Truth in Consciousness, Faith, Health, Inspiration, Meditation, Memory, Mindful, News update, Peace, Philosophy, Prayer, Religion, Science, Self-improvement, Spirituality

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B4Peace, Buddhism, compassion, Gamma wave, happy, joy, Learning, Matthieu Ricard, Peace, Prefrontal cortex, Ricard, Richard Davidson, serene, serenity, success

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The entity we call mind
may not be as neuroscience says
just a manifestation of the brain.

.Matthieu Ricard is the world’s happiest man,
according to researchers.

According to Ricard (text)

In the Western world, meditation means sitting under a mango tree in a blissed out state. The prevailing idea is that you have to sit down and empty you mind. It’s not that at all. You have to clean up a bit. We have so many wandering and intrusive thoughts. So you have to be in control of your own mind. Inner freedom doesn’t mean following every chain of thought. It’s like a sailor who takes the helm and decides where to sail instead of drifting with the current. If you want to generate particular state of mind, you do what it takes.

Ricard: 'Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree but it completely changes your brain'

“Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree but it completely changes your brain.” The French genetic scientist left an intellectual life 40 years ago and moved to India to study Buddhism. His daily routine of meditation made possible amazing brain scans that demonstrate that if he’s meditating on compassion, Ricard’s brain produces a level of gamma waves never before ever reported within neuroscience literature. NOTE: gamma brain wave production is associated with consciousness, attention, learning and memory.

His skull was wired up with 256 sensors at the University of Wisconsin and its all been recorded — he’s got a happy and joyous mind — no doubt. Scans found excess activity in his brain’s left prefrontal cortex compared to its right counterpart, giving Ricard an abnormally large capacity for happiness.

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A larger volume of a specific brain structure generally increases the abilities to carry out specific functions associated with that structure. This is widely accepted based on the assumption that greater numbers of neurons will produce larger outputs and therefore may be more influential than smaller numbers of neurons.

Researchers in neuroscience demonstrate that the prefrontal cortex plays a responsible role in forming of expectations based on actions and social control, predicting of outcomes, future consequences of activities, working toward goals, development of abilities to differentiate among conflicting thoughts, abilities to determine same and different and better and best. Abilities to suppress urges that may lead to socially unacceptable outcomes are developed by this area of the brain.

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Thanks for reading.

 Eric

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  • Scans of Monks’ Brains Show Meditation Alters Structure, Functioning (psyphz.psych.wisc.edu) 
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  • The Compassionate Brain (throughthevortex.org)
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gratitude is essential…

06 Friday Sep 2013

Posted by Hunt 4 Truth in Consciousness, Culture, Happiness, Health, I can improve today, Inner peace, Mindful, Philosophy, Self-assessments, Self-improvement, Spirituality

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Oh, my… let me count some reasons.

1) I’m happy and content in a good way.

2) People like me when I am positive (and they don’t like me as much when I’m a crank).     That’s essential — I need to be liked.

3) I’m more comfortable and at ease and therefore more peaceful.

4) I’m more helpful and useful and appreciative of others — its nice to enjoy others. and 5) My friends and family are more likeable too.

6) I feel stronger and healthy.

7) There seem to be more options and alternatives and things to do.

8) I’m not worried. I’m not obsessing about ANYTHING.

9) I eat better and I take better care of myself.

10) There are dozens of other reasons — and there are more reasons as I’m more grateful.

 

Most importantly — Love — love is essential and I’m deeply (ever more) aware of love.  

What about you?

Thanks for your visit,
God Bless

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