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Do As One. Spring Forest Qigong - HOME. BJ Gallagher: Buddha: How to Tame Your Monkey Mind. The Buddha was the smartest psychologist I've ever read.
More than 2,500 years ago he was teaching people about the human mind so that they might understand themselves better and discover that there was a way out of suffering. Buddha wasn't a god or a messiah -- he was simply a very wise teacher with keen insights into human nature. He learned much by meditating and learning from his own experiences, as well as by observing the behavior of others.
Buddha described the human mind as being filled with drunken monkeys, jumping around, screeching, chattering, carrying on endlessly. Elsevier. Meditation prevents mind-wandering. A recent Yale study has verified that meditation can help improve concentration skills.
Judson Brewer, assistant professor of psychiatry and director of the Yale Therapeutic Neuroscience Clinic, found that experienced meditators are able to deactivate the specific portion of their brain that is involved with mind-wandering and often correlated with unhappiness and anxiety. The findings, published in the November edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, support the theory that meditation can be scientifically studied and has neurological effects.
The technique may also help meditators improve, as researchers will be able to use brain scans to determine whether meditation is actually having an effect. The Transcendental Meditation (TM) Program - Official website. How and where to learn. The Blog : How to Meditate. Walking Meditation: Bibliography, Links, Instructions, Quotes, Notes, Resources, Methods (Mindfulness Walking. Taoist Circle Walking, Kinhin)