In this weeks lesson, we take a look at Chakras, and how your body picks up energy on a vibratory level. Last week, a few people didn’t understand HOW thoughts affected you, but did you know that your body has a system for doing so? I want to thank everyone for their support on these videos so far, this is totally just the beginning. The real mind-blowing stuff is still on its way though! Namaste, see you next time! Jordan
Article by Richard M. Frost
Of all the brainwave frequencies displayed by the human brain, perhaps the most fascinating is the Gamma wave, around 40 Hertz. When in a Gamma state, the brain seems capable of remarkable synergy, exhibiting a high level of holistic functioning that unites multiple senses, perceptions, and memories. In short, we become almost super-human. Interestingly, this state is commonly observed in experienced Tibetan monks engaging in a “loving-kindness” meditation. As we shall see, Gamma waves are not the only benefit of this practice.
What Is Loving-Kindness Meditation?
Loving-kindness, or Metta Bhavana in Buddhist terms, is an ancient practice intended to teach us that happiness comes from loving others and empathizing with them. It is actually the foundational meditation in a four-part series, with the next steps being compassion (empathy for the suffering of others); empathetic joy (rejoicing in the well-being of others); and equanimity (acceptance of both joy and suffering, whether our own or of others). Loving-kindness creates harmony in our relationship with ourselves as well as with others, replacing anger, resentment, and hurt with patience, consideration, and forgiveness.
Since we are looking at the effects of loving-kindness from a more scientific viewpoint as well, it is worth noting that no less a scientist than Albert Einstein essentially prescribed the same practice: “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
How to Practice Loving-Kindness Meditation
The cultivation of loving-kindness starts with what should be the easiest subject – yourself – and works up from there in the following progression:
* Yourself * A good friend * A neutral person, like someone who serves you in a store * Someone with whom you are having problems * All sentient beings
Various techniques are employed to cultivate the feeling of loving-kindness. Visualize yourself or the other person being happy and smiling back at you. Reflect upon that person’s positive qualities. Use your own affirmations to reinforce feelings of warmth towards yourself and others. And use mantras, repeating words or phrases like “loving-kindness,” pausing between repetitions to observe the impact on your emotions. It is advised that you refrain from thinking about people to whom you are romantically attracted, since lust is not the emotion we are seeking to arouse!
The ultimate objective was expressed beautifully by one of the leading websites on Buddhism, wildmind.org: “Eventually we want to become like an emotional bonfire: a steady blaze of emotional warmth that will embrace any sentient being that we become aware of.”
A New Twist
While several prominent guides to Buddhist meditation recommend guided meditation CDs, they do not seem to have grasped the potential of adding brainwave entrainment techniques to the audio soundtrack. This is almost certainly because they are approaching meditation from a traditional, Buddhist perspective, including the recitation of prayers written by the Buddha himself. But we should not necessarily allow respect for traditions that are over 2,500 years old to blind us to the teachings of modern science. If we can see from EEG scans of experienced meditators that loving-kindness gives rise to Gamma waves, would it not make sense to encourage their formation? Listening to brainwave audio designed to entrain Gamma waves need not distract in any way from the familiar processes of visualization and affirmation. In fact, I believe it enhances the process tremendously by both increasing focus and encouraging whole-brain thinking and feeling. And that has to be good news, for the world really doesn’t need to wait one day longer for more love and compassion.
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Write-up by Keira Adams
Meditation in the Western Planet is usually seen as just paying out shut consideration to something and supplying it our full focus. But Eastern philosophy views it as a way to eliminate earthly needs, triumph over obstacles to oneness and transcend from the bodily to the spiritual realm. These loftier concepts aren’t constantly grasped by science-minded Westerners, who generally question the validity of natural nutritional supplements, acupuncture and meditation that have been working for Eastern cultures over the past 2,500 a long time. Nevertheless this extreme curiosity has pushed scientific investigation and the findings affirm that there is a thing magical about it. If you’ve got actually wondered about the causes to meditate, then examine on for some of the thrilling reports printed about how it functions in the head and system.
Insomniacs are 1 group of individuals who can understand tremendous benefits from meditation. At the June 2009 Related Expert Rest Societies meeting, scientists from Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Evanston, Illinois noted their findings that meditating in the daytime improved the good quality of snooze in clients with insomnia. Clients mentioned marked advancement in their sleep latency, complete rest time, whole wake time, snooze efficiency, rest quality and depression signs and symptoms following two months of training Kriya Yoga meditation techniques. “Results of the study display that instructing deep relaxation methods throughout the daytime can aid boost sleep at night time,” mentioned review leader Ramadevi Gourineni MD.
Zen meditation has been demonstrated to reduce discomfort sensitivity each in and out of a meditative state. The research carried out by the Universite de Montreal found that those who meditate breathed at an regular of twelve breaths per minutes, compared to fifteen breaths for each moment in these who never meditate. The greatest end result for practitioners was an 18% reduction in ache sensitivity. “If meditation can adjust the way a person feels ache, therefore minimizing the volume of pain medicine essential for an ailment, that would be evidently helpful,” explains co-writer Joshua A. Grant.
If you happen to be depressed, you might benefit significantly from meditation. An Oxford University research indicates that mindfulness meditation substantially decreases the number of folks with depression. Study leader Professor Mark Williams stated: “We are on the brink of finding truly crucial issues about how men and women can understand to keep effectively after depression. Our intention is to help people to locate prolonged-expression independence from the day-to-day battle with their moods.”
Folks with early stage dementia also have great reasons to meditate. Qigong and Taiji exercises and meditation classes improved mood and cognitive function in nearly all participants after twenty weeks of meditation remedy, scientists discovered. “The clinical findings, from my perspective, go much over and above the statistical findings,” explained Sandy Burgener from the College of Illinois. “Individuals were happier when they have been in the treatment method group. Two males came in with walkers and left with out them. A single is in our Taiji group 3 many years afterwards and is nevertheless not making use of a walker.”
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Write-up by B.M.Wiley
Pretty considerably every thing in this world responds with a resonance. For instance, a guitar player would strum at the guitar strings with just the right quantity of pressure to create the desired sound. A tidal wave would consequence from a robust underwater earthquake. On a more figurative note, a man or woman would chuckle at a amusing joke.
Our brains are no various. Brain entrainment is basically your brain