Harvard Unveils MRI Study Proving Meditation Literally Rebuilds The Brain’s Gray Matter In 8 Weeks
Test subjects taking part in an 8-week program of mindfulness meditation showed results that astonished even the most experienced neuroscientists at Harvard University. The study was led by a Harvard-affiliated team of researchers based at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the team’s MRI scans documented for the very first time in medical history how meditation produced massive changes inside the brain’s gray matter. “Although the practice of meditation is associated with a sense of peacefulness and physical relaxation, practitioners have long claimed that meditation also provides cognitive and psychological benefits that persist throughout the day,” says study senior author Sara Lazar of the MGH Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program and a Harvard Medical School instructor in psychology. “This study demonstrates that changes in brain structure may underlie some of these reported improvements and that people are not just feeling better because they are spending time relaxing.”
Top Ten Tips For Lucid Dreaming
By Steven Bancarz| Lucid dreaming is one of the most extraordinary experiences you could have as a human being. Being awake within a dream, you are able to consciously interact with it just as you interact in the real world. Everything is saturated with colour and vibrantly alive, and it feels far more real than waking life does. There are many practical benefits to lucid dreaming. For me personally, it reminded be of how much life is like a dream and helped me appreciate the impermanence.
Emerald Tablet
An imaginative 17th century depiction of the Emerald Tablet from the work of Heinrich Khunrath, 1606. The Emerald Tablet, also known as the Smaragdine Table, or Tabula Smaragdina, is a compact and cryptic piece of Hermetica reputed to contain the secret of the prima materia and its transmutation. It was highly regarded by European alchemists as the foundation of their art and its Hermetic tradition.
Lucid Dreaming Secrets Unveiled - Complete Lucid Dreaming - Lucid Dreaming Secrets Unveiled - Complete Lucid Dreaming
The key to a happy and fulfilling life resides in your dreaming... Either way, welcome! You might be reading this with some trepidation and perhaps a touch of cynicism. In many ways, you’re right to be cautious. After all, LUCID DREAMING IS A POWERFUL LIFE CHANGING FORCE.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Life[edit] Agrippa was born in Cologne on 15 September 1486. In 1512, he taught at the University of Dole in the Free County of Burgundy, lecturing on Johann Reuchlin's De verbo mirifico; as a result, Agrippa was denounced, behind his back, as a "Judaizing heretic". Agrippa's vitriolic response many months later did not endear him to the University. In 1510, Agrippa studied briefly with Johannes Trithemius, and Agrippa sent him an early draft of his masterpiece, De occulta philosophia libri tres, a kind of summa of early modern occult thought.
Lucid Living - Creating Your Lucid Reality
By Luke Sumpter Guest Writer for Wake up World Depending upon the culture we are born and raised in, our mind is programmed to perceive the world in a certain way. Many people seem to meander through this life very unconsciously, abiding by the dictated social conditioning within their consciousness from birth – free from questioning and critical analysis. This may related to how their society operates, political ideologies, religious belief systems, the expectations placed upon them as an individual etc. However, when the boat is rocked and the water breaks white, we tend to catch a glimpse of the world from an unbiased, raw, baseline outlook.
Mantra
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Essential Advice On Meditation by Sogyal Rinpoche
ESSENTIAL ADVICE ON MEDITATION excerpts from Teachings by Sogyal Rinpoche When you read books about meditation, or often when meditation is is presented by different groups, much of the emphasis falls on the techniques. In the West, people tend to be very interested in the "technology" of meditation. However, by far the most important feature of meditation is not technique, but the way of being, the spirit, which is callled the "posture", a posture which is not so much physical, but more to do with spirit or attitude.
Pancha kosha: Five layers of the human existence and the GOD
Hinduism identifies man in terms of 3 Bodies, 5 Koshas (sheaths), and 3 States. This page provides details about 5 Koshas. Kosha (also, Kosa) is referred to as "sheath", one of five (or seven) coverings of the Atman or Self according to Vedantic philosophy. According to the Kosha system in Yogic philosophy, the nature of being human encompasses physical and psychological aspects that function as one holistic system.
3 Types of Bodies: Gross-Sthula, Astral-Linga & Causal-Karan body
Subtle or astral body (Linga Sharira) is where lives mind and intellect. Manomaya and Gyanamaya Kosh and part of pranamaya kosha resides in Astral or Subtle body. Linga Sharira contains pranamaya kosha, movement of the pranic force directing our physical and mental activities. This movement happens through nadis or channels, conductors of energy which are controlled by the six chakras. Vital sheath is a subtler sheath when compared to annamaya kosha.
scripture - What are Five Layers (Pancha Kosha) of Human? - Hinduism Stack Exchange
The Human body is actually a sheath or Kosha, if we dig deeper towards the soul(Atman), we find five distinct layers covering it, these are called the Five Sheaths or Pancha Kosha. They are : Annamay Kosha : Meaning 'Food Sheath', is the physical body, with hands, eyes, the body which has a name and dies. This is the gross, physical body.
