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The Best Form of Meditation You’re (Probably) Not Doing

You might know this about me already, but I’m a big advocate for meditation of all kinds.  There are a multitude of different types of meditation options available. With so many options, it can be pretty confusing to know what to do and what will work best for you. I’m going to touch briefly on two popular types of meditation for this article, and then dive into a third type that is my personal favorite. The first type of meditation is one pretty much everyone has heard of: Transcendental Meditation, or which falls into the category of “mantra meditation,” where the practitioner repeats a mantra silently in order to calm the stream of thoughts that arise from the mind. TM has become a big business […] Read More

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A Buddhist Monk Shows “Unheard Of” Brain Activity During Meditation

What happens with the brain activity during meditation? “Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.” ―Voltaire Matthieu Ricard, a 66-year old Tibetan monk and geneticist, produces brain gamma waves—linked to consciousness, attention, learning and memory—never before reported in neuroscience, leading researchers to conclude that Ricard is the world’s happiest man. The secret to his success in achieving bliss? Meditation, he claims. “Meditating is like lifting weights or exercising for the mind”, Ricard told the Daily News. “Anyone can be happy by simply training their brain”, he says. To quantify just how happy Ricard is, neuroscientists at the University of Wisconsin attached 256 sensors to the monk’s skull. When he meditated on compassion, the researchers were shocked to […] Read More

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Schools in San Francisco implement meditation & students happiness and academic success soars

by Jennifer Chait, We’ve seen yoga, standing desks and vegetarian lunches turn troubled schools around, but we’ve never seen meditation adopted successfully within the school system. Until now. According to reports, several San Francisco middle and high schools, as well as scattered schools around the Bay Area, have adopted what they call, “Quiet Time” – a stress-reduction meditation strategy that is doing wonders for students and teachers. The first school to adopt the Quiet Time practice in 2007, Visitacion Valley Middle School, has reaped huge rewards. Formally a school largely out of control, Visitacion Valley is smack in the middle of a neighborhood where shootings are common. This resulted in the students getting bad grades, skipping school and fighting daily, as they were likely highly troubled by the violence surrounding them. The […] Read More

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Meditation Can Hack Your Brain’s Default Mode

Waking Times Video – More studies continue to surface proving that a regular meditation practice will reduce stress, improve physical and mental health, and even help with the most debilitating mental disorders. Dan Harris explains the neuroscience behind meditation and makes some strong predictions about the role that meditation will play in society over the next few decades. Whichever method you choose to practice, just remember that it takes a daily commitment to perfect and see true benefits of meditation, although it isn’t magic and it’s unlikely you’ll find yourself floating into the cosmic ooze while meditating. The benefits will be subtle at first, but over time more and more noticeable. ~~ Help Waking Times to raise the vibration by sharing this article with the buttons […] Read More

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The NEO Neurophone: A Meditation Tool for the 21st Century

If you had the opportunity to accelerate your meditative mind to that of a monk’s within weeks, would you take it? Patrick Flanagan, author of the best selling Pyramid Power that sold over a million copies, developed a technology in 1958 that has the ability to facilitate this type of quantum leap of the mind for its user. The Neurophone is not a phone…it is a handheld device that emits a subtle ultrasonic frequency to create left/right brain synchronization through two transducers that are applied to the user’s forehead. Sound straight out of a Science Fiction novel? That’s because it is… In 1911, Hugo Gernsback, often referred to as “The Father of Science Fiction”, wrote a book titled Ralph 124C 4+ in which he depicted […] Read More

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Meditation Postures

Meditation is an age-old practice that helps give you clear focus, sense of purpose and deep inner peace. With daily practice, meditations can have a profound impact on your life. One often realizes over time a special sense of peace and calm you feel during meditation and which you carry over into your everyday life at home, at work or while in traffic. With greater levels of inner peace and calm, meditation keeps you more grounded and centered throughout the day. So how do you get started? Choose a quiet spot and try out these meditation postures. Kneeling Meditation This technique of meditation was popular ancient Egypt and is still practiced in Japan where it is called seiza. To meditate on a kneeling position you […] Read More

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Meditation for Students

Meditation makes you an excellent student.  Today, most students are faced with the alarming rise of classroom stress arising from various causative factors such as demanding academic achievement standards, social anxiety & depression and school violence. Schools and students can take advantage of the immense benefit of meditation to help the students get better grades and be better students. Here is how meditation can benefit students in high school and colleges: Improved Concentration Frequent meditation exercises can help students concentrate better and have more mental focus. Young adolescents and college-going students may easily get bored and may have difficulty concentrating on certain classroom tasks and homework. But with increased relaxation and regular ease of mental pressure that comes with mediation, students can develop greater alertness […] Read More

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Benefits of Meditation for the Elderly

Meditation is an age-old practice that has been used to quiet the mind and attain a higher spiritual experience. In the recent past, new findings show that meditation is beneficial to the elderly in a number of great ways. More and more doctors now believe that meditation is one of the best tools for mental, emotional and physical health of the elderly. Here, we look at the top five Benefits of Meditation for the Elderly: Improves Memory Meditation activates the hippocampus and the frontal lobe areas of the brain, which serve the role of maintaining both long term and short term memory. Continuous meditative exercise means a better long and short term memory recall that includes retrieving long lost memories. Meditation also affords the elderly […] Read More

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Why meditation can help you

It doesn’t make sense when you are told to retreat relax and meditate when in a financial crisis. It’s rather reasonable that you don’t settle down until you come out of that huge financial burden that is tolling down on you. Meditation? Ooh please no! It has been said that people who don’t meditate are often more ignorant and are susceptible to making careless rushed choices that plunges them in a deeper trouble than the one they are in. This is why it’s important to free your mind and relax when in a financial crisis. It will help a million miles and you will be amazed at how quickly you will be able to harness your mental strength again and come up with strategic points […] Read More

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Meditation for the Family

Why is Meditation for the family important? Perhaps families should take more keen attention on meditation and how it can Foster positive relationships in the family. Meditation today is something that is rarely exercised because of the rapid change in lifestyles that leaves no room for retreating and relaxing and hence meditation. There is need to pause and recollect ourselves in the midst of a busy lifestyle that has the toll of budgets, deadlines, expectations duties, deadlines, etc . Importance of meditation for the family Meditation for the family today will help in fostering the mental and physical health of the children and the parents together as a unit. You have probably heard of many instances of family complaining of back pains after work, after […] Read More