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How to Balance Mantra and Mindfulness for Optimal Meditation
The meditation zone is about both peak performance and well-being. To illustrate the zone we're going to use a ping-pong analogy to briefly describe the two key participants (ping-pong players) in this feedback process - the mind and the brain. Simplified, the mind interprets what the brain processes. For example, now your brain is processing - reading - these words while steering the accompanying necessary motor functions (e.g. eye movement, finger scrolling the mouse butto
December 1, 2008
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Extreme Happiness: The Science Of Meditation And The Brain
Let's mirror depression and happiness and learn the simple truth underlying them both. Scientists know far less about positive emotions than they do about negative emotions and stress. But researchers have in recent years recorded remarkable results. A team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin recorded greater brain activity in the left prefrontal cortex after an 8-week mindfulness-based meditation program. Left-sided anterior brain activity is linked to positive em
October 30, 2008
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Mindfulness And The Real Change We Need
Being aware of change without having to stop and interpret it, mindfulness means detachment. I call it surfing on change. As the waves you surf upon, as the waves that come and go and vary in size and intensity, change is fluid and always present. But you do not have to immerse yourself in change. Furthermore, if the surfer focuses on finding the perfect wave and that perfect feel, she will probably never find it. And if she does, every wave that follows that perfect wave ma
October 30, 2008
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Learn Meditation the Smart Way - Mantra and Mindfulness in Action
We are going to focus on mantra, mindfulness, how they interact, and how their interaction applies to your meditation, life and happiness. Meditation is mainly about attitude, not technique. You should know about this because human nature has a flaw, and you may not be aware of this problem. Short and simple, meditation means awareness. Mindfulness, mantra, sentience... They are inseparable aspects of consciousness and the wide spectrum of awareness - meditation. Learning me
October 23, 2008
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