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- ElbertF, on 06/17/2008, -0/+32Yes it does. Your brain is constantly rewiring, even a single thought alters your brain structure. I'm sure changing the way you use your brain will have notable effects on the long term.
- iamdak, on 06/17/2008, -6/+20“Not long ago, I was on a crowded train where there was standing-room only going from Paddington to Bristol. I sat cross-legged on the floor to meditate and felt like I was transported to a delightful place. It was glorious to feel it was possible to ‘escape' like that.”
Until someone knees you in the face. - birdcity, on 06/17/2008, -0/+10defragment on the brain ?
- Dexter77, on 06/17/2008, -0/+9I've also been meditating since I turned twelve, almost 20 years now. Some people already commented about meditation and it's effects, which I fully agree. Though I would like to add one point. Meditation is like rebooting or reseting the mind. It allows remove stress and all other negative emotions as well even deep sorrow or depression.
But if you add NLP to it, you can reprogram yourself, your emotions. Which is kind of scary, because you'll then see how easily your mind is controlled. Using anchoring (NLP technique to recall emotional states) you can easily go from feeling of devastation to extreme happiness. In the end, you can see that what happens around you actually has no correlation with your emotional states, it's just the way our brain was designed to work, but it can be circumvented.
To make it short: Medidation/Yoga = reset, NLP = load any emotional state you want. - tracespeck, on 06/17/2008, -2/+11I've suggested to a lot of high stress people I know to try meditation but none have listened.
- ElbertF, on 06/17/2008, -0/+6I don't need to, I formatted my brain to EXT3.
- Haecceity, on 06/17/2008, -0/+6Just one quibble -- meditation isn't a "traditional therapy" in the sense of being a form of "treatment" in any narrow sense. Although it can be used in that way it's more properly a form of mental training. Even if you're generally happy and in good mental health, it's beneficial to practice meditation.
Just as muscles can be developed through physical exercise, brain pathways are developed through mental exercise. The difference is that meditation also involves *removing* existing inefficient pathways connected with anxiety, anger, depression, etc. In meditation we stop exercising those pathways and also choose to build up pathways connected with more helpful emotional and mental habits, like patience, persistence, and compassion. This leads to greater internal efficiency, wellbeing, and happiness. - Visarga, on 06/17/2008, -0/+5I've practiced meditation for the last 15 years. In time, I learned to go into a "zone" where there is intense happiness. Maybe it is self-drugging - my mind learned to push some "buttons" in the brain, have it secrete hormones that will induce happiness. Maybe I feel "subtle energies" in my "aura". But I definitely do something. And it is very interesting.
- RNEMESiS42, on 06/17/2008, -0/+4Bud, you do not know what you are talking about.
- mahler, on 06/17/2008, -0/+3Or unzips his fly to zwaffle you.
- sfacets, on 06/17/2008, -0/+3This isn't surprising - meditation has also been shown to help with ADHD in kids, among other things.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2007/11/30/ ... - liuite, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2go to your happy place and you will not feel depressed any more...seek ye first the kingdom within
- sfacets, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2All you have to do is look.
- Evermin7, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2Yes, it does?
- Terr01, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1It's extra painful if you get Ni'ed in the Shrubbery.
- czg3000, on 06/18/2008, -0/+1I think there's been a lot of research on this, but this video is a scientific demonstration of meditation at work:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=ken+wilber+s ... - Terr01, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1Then it wasn't Standing-Room-Only, was it? Obviously there was room to sit, even if there were no more chairs.
- sfacets, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1A delightful place indeed Bristol is :D
- webcrumb, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1The knee-er.
You are the knee-ee. - Gndoab, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1pre-emptive meditation is pre-emptive by meditation :)
- ChiefShaman, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1I love reading the comments on such articles - most diggers who comment state their opinions based on their own misconceptions and come off as idiots and others agree with with them because they have been feed the same bull-***** and believe it too. My favorite is: "...meditation isn't a "traditional therapy"..." Not that the statement is wrong, just the use of the term "traditional". It's funny that modern society calls modern medicine "traditional" and the older forms of medicine "alternative" even though when you look in pharmaceutical books from before 1900 they list cures that are now considered "alternative" because back than they hadn't come up with a dangerous chemical alternative that had hazardous side effects yet.
- czg3000, on 06/18/2008, -0/+1http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=ken+wilber+s ...
(sorry for the double-post) - Visarga, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1exactly. unity = defrag
- AmandaQ, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1I actually had a conversation with a Zen Buddhist monk a few months ago, and she told me about this idea. I actually think it is entirely possible that regular meditation can, over time, create an overall more peaceful state of mind. Ever since I've started practicing regularly, I feel like it is a lot easier to achieve the zen state of mind--even on days when things are a little more stressful.
- ReyX, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1The knights who say knee-eeee?
- Chachuka, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1Dugg for zwaf-- aw ***** it.
- TheHim, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1Well said. It can also help to built trust in the spontaneous (real) self, as one learns to experience the body/mind happening rather than trying to steer/control it, which often comes from the underlying assumption, that our intuitive self somehow doesn't cut it, in this world.
- Chachuka, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1All experience is meditative practice!
Does experience alter your brain structure? - duckyinc, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1Erm no? How do you think the brain can change itself? Rearranging major areas could go horribly wrong.
- iancgi, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1lol, thats like asking if exercising and eating healthy will have a positive effect on your body. We are a triad, the body, mind, and spirit. Exercise them all.
- emptymind, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1actually, the question would be: who is getting kneed?
- Gndoab, on 06/17/2008, -2/+2second zen comment: who is commenting? :)
- creatunity, on 12/10/2008, -0/+0I think with the proper nutrients to the body combined with actual meditation, you can see improvements in your brain. Things like concentration and focus are what I'm talking about http://www.acaiberrymd.com
- SoniaGallagher, on 05/20/2009, -0/+0This is incredible news. Meditation is free and can be done anywhere, does not have any side effects, and does not require health insurance. I dont see a single negative!
- JHarrison23, on 12/01/2008, -0/+0I dont understand how you think it wouldn't alter your brain.
http://www.Total-Cleanse.org - jamdogg, on 06/17/2008, -3/+2"I will meditate and destroy you"
- MetalLizard, on 06/17/2008, -3/+2Perhaps meditation alters our brains structure. However, I know damn well medication certainly does...
- monoa, on 06/17/2008, -3/+1And the NHS funds homeopathy treatments despite there being no evidence of efficacy.
Show me a wide-ranging set of clinical double blind tests that demonstrate any of this hocus works as claimed and I'll sign up.
No surprise this is in The Times - the (almost) thinking man's Daily Mail. - Rammat2, on 06/17/2008, -2/+0Does meditation alter your brain structure? I saw a guy in India who was into meditation. He made a purse out of his ball sack. So, maybe it does alter brain structure.
- Gndoab, on 06/17/2008, -5/+1Zen comment: if you get kneed in the face, who is actually doing the kneeing?
- argo2d, on 06/17/2008, -5/+1is this one of those questions without an answer?
*goes to pre-emptively meditate on the answer to this question* - inactive, on 06/17/2008, -5/+0What the difference between Nickelback's "The State" and The Who's "Quadrophenia"? One is Jon Barry and the the other, Brent Barry.
Why don't you tell them 'wassup?' *pukes in dirt and faps to John Kruk* - ysss, on 06/17/2008, -9/+1“Not long ago, I was on a crowded train where there was standing-room only going from Paddington to Bristol. I sat cross-legged on the floor to meditate and felt like I was transported to a delightful place. It was glorious to feel it was possible to ‘escape' like that.”
Until those who think you escaped from an insane asylum strapped your straightjacket back on. - inactive, on 06/17/2008, -11/+3What's difference between achieving an altered state or mind by meditation, and schizophrenia? One is voluntary and the other, involuntary.
Isn't that mighty ***** up? *tears off shirt and runs amok* - mojoe1185, on 06/17/2008, -25/+1No it does not
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