meditation

Military veterans with PTSD turn to yoga and meditation Sure, anecdotes are great, and that article has several. But does it really work? Turns out, it might. There is a limited amount of evidence that yoga and meditation are marginally effective in assisting to manage the symptoms of PTSD...

Who will measure results?

I postulate the only difference is expectation. If you have expectation of being hypnotized you might be more open to suggestion and if you have the expectation of just being relaxed you might be relaxed but not unusually open to suggestion.

I picked up a pamphlet in a restaurant yesterday that provided some of the most entertaining reading I have seen in a long time. It was entitled "Maum Meditation", with the cryptic and unparseable subtitle, "Where does human need to go while living?" It is a fairly slick publication, albeit...

Has anyone heard of James Hardt and his Biocybernaut Institute? It sounds pretty woo to me, but I can't find much objective commentary about it on the Web. A search of the JREF forums returned nothing. I'm looking for opinions from anyone who might have heard of/visited/patronized this...

Hi all, I am new in this forum, so I hope my story will not look out of topic here. Back ten years ago, even little bit more, I was part of a Catholic praying group, a very serious one indeed, that gathered every Saturday night in a religious community with about twenty other people, mainly...

John Hagelin Ph.D. claims that we can immediately reduce violence, war deaths and terrorism in the surrounding region by more than 70% by meditating in groups. Although this sounds far fetched enough to dismiss with ease, he also claims that he has conducted several scientific studies that...

I sat twice 35min today, at 10:30am and 11.15am. Being alone is hard but worthwhile. What kind of practice have you done?

Hello all, Recently I've read some articles about Eastern meditation and got confused.For example,influent indian teacher Ramana Maharshi told,that there is such thing as spiritual heart,and it is located on the right.He speaks of his personal expericne during the meditation.I'm impress by...

http://www.wakehealth.edu/News-Releases/2011/Demystifying_Meditation_%E2%80%93_Brain_Imaging_Illustrates_How_Meditation_Reduces_Pain.htm A sample size of 15? "Funding for the study was provided by the Mind and Life Institute in Boulder, Colo., and the Center for Biomolecular Imaging at Wake...

I've been in group therapy for a bit for depression and anxiety, and my previous therapist was just replaced (they occasionally cycle therapists where I go to give people different experience). I have a concern about the new therapist. During our first session she talked about chakras and...

From the LA Times: Jail's meditation course is not a hard cell By Robert Faturechi Participants in the popular weekly course at L.A. County's Men's Central facility say the techniques they learn for relaxation and self-control couldn't be more useful in their environs...

I know I should be appalled by this, but I just find it hilarious: http://www.intentionalchocolate.com/info/About_Us I most certainly eat chocolate intentionally. Eaten in sufficient quantities, it has also been known to put me into a stupor meditative state.

Didn't actually read the entire post by Cainkane1, (I skimmed it), but this part looked really interesting: Is there any medical benefit to silencing the part that separates self from the larger world? If so, how does one meditate effectively? I've read a few studies in psychology and...

Since I couldn't find this through the search engine, I'll put it up (sorry if it's already been discussed). As someone who used a lot of time during roughly 10 years of his life to perform different intensive meditation practices, I found this article in Scientific American interesting...

Is there any scientific evidence that Meditation improves 1) Thinking ability, understanding of man, god(if any) and nature, makes you wiser, happy and peaceful 2) Permanently reduces stress, blood pressure, and makes you healthier (not only during the meditation period) Many Hindu and...

I have a very short attention span, making it difficult to get anything done. I've started meditating lately, to see if it'll help improve my concentration, and it seems to be working. Unfortunately, in the past I've never been able to stick with it more than a week or two. I began to wonder...

I was raised as a Baptist, and I have been surrounded by "prayer warriors" all of my life. Having examined recent studies of prayer, I am left to conclude that it does little good in helping anyone being prayed for. That being said, I am curious about the usefulness of prayer to the person...

First, I must confess that I am really disgusted, often if not all the time, with writings by Buddhists about Buddhist ideas, because their way of writing appears to me to be beyond our power for grabbing anything, owing to their diarrheaic outflow of words as to be extremely slippery in what...

Several of my (otherwise quite sensible) friends have said they get a lot of benefit from meditation. I have always thought of it as woo or placebo at best. Do people here have any positive experiences of it. I promised one friend I would attend a local buddhist temple with them and listen to a...

Interesting news connected to, "The Secret to You" nonsense that is currently the rage in new age idiot groups. Search youtube and the name "David Schirmer" to find an Australian news show running an expose on Schirmer and his activities. In case you don't know, Schirmer is titled a "teacher"...

I was wondering what everyone thought about meditations ability to overcome natural reflexes including pain. There are stories of Buddhist monks overcoming extreme feats or being subjected to extreme pain and not even flinching. I will highlight one story in particular. In 1963 a Buddhist monk...

http://labnotes.talk.newsweek.com/default.asp?item=593703 I am posting this to get the unvarnished, raw opinion of this "No BS allowed" forum.

If you search in google and type tummo and go into wikipedia and go to the bottom and click on the havard link Well if you have read the article it shows how meditation can do things thought to be impossible in everyday science. Controlling your own body temperture and making it raise above...

[xposted from my blog. Dunno if it really fits in R&P, but I guess it's the closest one.] Are there any books that cover meditation and self-editing techniques, but without a bunch of unsupported woo or religious dogma? I find it fairly sad / annoying that it's so bound up with both - either...

The present exercise is intended to answer with Yes or No to the following question, on the authority of Cochrane: Has meditation effected a relief to anxiety? Yes or No. Our text is the abstract of Cochrane of its review on the therapeutic benefits of meditation: Meditation therapy for...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20051111/sc_space/meditateonthisbuddhisttraditionthickenspartsofthebrain

The wiki article on meditation seems very one sided and I thought this would be the best place to post it so that some of you can get to changing it and editing it to be less one sided. The article.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditation seems to be very one sided supporting the whole...

I'm lucky (?) enough that David Lynch, John Hagelin and Fred Travis are coming to give a 'lecture' on TM in my area this weekend. I'm planning to go and ask some difficult questions during the Q&A. I don't expect to be able to convince them of anything (as much as I love Lynch as a director, the...

This article requires membership to read so I couldn't post a link to it. I hope I am not in violation of forum rules if I give credit where credit is do to author and magazine. If not, I apologize for violating policy. The article was too interesting not to post...