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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. The freshest stories straight to your Inbox By signing up you will also get exclusive updates on FEELguide offers, events, deals, tips, and all sorts of other goodies. Related:  Astral travel and lucid dreamingMeditation

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. It helped me cultivate more consciousness and awareness in waking life by reminding me that I don’t have to be a victim to my surroundings, and can instead become lucid and take control. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. It’s important to remember that there is nothing to fear in a lucid dream. For those who are interested in taking their journey with lucid dreaming to the next level, there is an awesome lucid dreaming program that is designed to help you become a master at lucid dreaming.

Mindfulness Online Workshop It’s a busy world. You fold the laundry while keeping one eye on the kids and another on the television. You plan your day while listening to the radio and commuting to work, and then plan your weekend. Mindfulness is the practice of purposely focusing your attention on the present moment—and accepting it without judgment. The cultivation of mindfulness has roots in Buddhism, but most religions include some type of prayer or meditation technique that helps shift your thoughts away from your usual preoccupations toward an appreciation of the moment and a larger perspective on life. Mindfulness improves well being Increasing your capacity for mindfulness supports many attitudes that contribute to a satisfied life. Mindfulness improves physical health If greater well-being isn’t enough of an incentive, scientists have discovered the benefits of mindfulness techniques help improve physical health in a number of ways. Mindfulness improves mental health

The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think | Johann Hari It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned — and all through this long century of waging war on drugs, we have been told a story about addiction by our teachers and by our governments. This story is so deeply ingrained in our minds that we take it for granted. It seems obvious. If we truly absorb this new story, we will have to change a lot more than the drug war. I learned it from an extraordinary mixture of people I met on my travels. I had a quite personal reason to set out for these answers. If you had asked me what causes drug addiction at the start, I would have looked at you as if you were an idiot, and said: “Drugs. One of the ways this theory was first established is through rat experiments — ones that were injected into the American psyche in the 1980s, in a famous advert by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. The advert explains: “Only one drug is so addictive, nine out of ten laboratory rats will use it. When I first learned about this, I was puzzled.

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. There’s no need to fear! Ask yourself what do you want from life. If the answer to any of those questions is ‘YES’ thenyou owe it to yourself to find out more about the power of lucid dreams. It was only by chance that I stumbled upon the incredible truth about the power of lucid dreams. For me, the awesome full knowledge of lucid dreams came at a point when I felt as if my life was going nowhere. Have you ever had one of those dreams where you know that you’re dreaming but you stillget completely caught up with what’s happening in the dream? Until I learnt the secrets, I’d experienced those dreams very occasionally. As a child and teenager I was always kind of a happy-go-lucky type of person. The results? P.S. P.P.S.

Nine Stages of Training the Mind Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche presents a map of the meditative process. From a wild and busy mind to the perfection of equanimity, he lays out the nine stages of training the mind. As the lineage of meditators sat on their cushions and worked with their minds, they saw the same unfolding process: nine ways that the mind can be true to its inherent stability, clarity and strength. The first four stages—placement, continual placement, repeated placement and close placement—have to do with developing stability. Placement Placing our mind on the breath is the first thing we do in meditation. This moment of placement starts when we extract our mind from its engagement with events, problems, thoughts and emotions. In order for placement to be successful, we have to formally acknowledge that we’re letting go of concepts, thoughts and emotions: “Now I’m placing my mind upon the breath.” Each time you remember to place your mind on the breath, you’re moving forward. I love golf. Continual Placement

Why animals eat psychoactive plants The United Nations says the drug war’s rationale is to build “a drug-free world — we can do it!” U.S. government officials agree, stressing that “there is no such thing as recreational drug use.” So this isn’t a war to stop addiction, like that in my family, or teenage drug use. It is a war to stop drug use among all humans, everywhere. I began to see this goal differently after I learned the story of the drunk elephants, the stoned water buffalo, and the grieving mongoose. The tropical storm in Hawaii had reduced the mongoose’s home to a mess of mud, and lying there, amid the dirt and the water, was the mongoose’s mate — dead. Two months before, the professor had planted a powerful hallucinogen called silver morning glory in the pen. It turns out this wasn’t a freak occurrence in the animal kingdom. What Ronald K. After sampling the numbing nectar of certain orchids, bees drop to the ground in a temporary stupor, then weave back for more. This is hard to dispute, yet hard to absorb.

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. 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. Regardless of how this process occurs, such life events have the tendency to force an individual to start to question reality – what is really “true”, what parts of our belief systems are actually serving and progressing us along our path, and which parts are actually detrimental. A lucid person becomes more conscious of what foods from which they choose to construct their body-mind, what relationships they choose to invest energy in, and grow from, and where they choose to receive orders and authoritative demands from – if anywhere at all. When we become lucid within a dream, we know nothing can harm us. When we become lucid in the waking state, we often lose the fear of death.

Benefits of Meditation 101: How To Meditate In Less Time May is National Meditation Month: are you ready to learn how to meditate? You have tons of options. There are *at least* 50 shades of zen to pick from! I always knew that I wanted to benefit from meditation, but I didn’t want to sit alone in a room doing it. This post provides an overview of the benefits of meditation, main types of meditation, and how to get the most bang for your meditative buck. If you want to learn more about all the research and science supporting meditation, great news: check back here for each part of the science behind meditation series as they get published week by week. 1) Meditation on Your Brain & Focus: Focus, Calm, Performance2) Meditation on Stress & Well-being: Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Substance Abuse3) Meditation on Your Body: Heart, Blood Pressure, Other Physical Benefits TLDR: This post lays out all the top meditation hacks to get the most out of your practice, for those who don’t feel like reading all the science behind it. Consistency Is Key

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