"Meditation Index" - a new Measure of Man?

Recent research has made the discovery that the corpus callosum - the bundle of neural fibers situated deep inside the brain - is thicker in the brain of long-term meditators than in the average person. More such discoveries point to the possibility that, the more you practice meditation, the more structurally and perhaps physiologically different your brain becomes from the others. Does this property of neural plasticity point to the development of a new Measure of Man? A new measure perhaps, called the "Meditation Index"? This would be something similar to the conventional IQ or EQ. After reaching this stage, we will be able to assess our evolution on the path of spirituality...

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Think. Ponder. Meditate.

The Sixth Chapter Of The Bhagavad Gita

On Mastering The Mind; And The LoA Across Lifetimes

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Exploring The Fourth State Of Consciousness

- This State Helps Keep The Mind Healthy
- Time was when the phrase "mental health" would conjure up imagery of asylums and psychiatric wards and mental hospitals with rows upon rows of beds on which were stationed "patients" manacled to bedposts and walls, with grim-looking nurses and equally grim-looking attendants moving around, making sure that the inmates do not pose any danger either to themselves or to the rest of humanity.

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When Science Meets Sentience

It is a revolution quietly taking place in collective human consciousness. And Dr Jill Bolte Taylor's episode and report of her hemorrhage experience should actually be perceived as the latest in a series of now rapidly occurring milestones on the road towards the raising of this consciousness.

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Dr Jill's Episode Yet Another Milestone Towards Raising Collective Consciousness

Handling The Archive Of Thoughts During Meditation

Learn To Handle This; And You Have Made It! 

 

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Workshop On Meditation - Exercising The Muscles Of The Mind

I and a few fellow-meditators have just concluded a ten-day-long workshop on meditation. The workshop was attended by a good 42 people in the age range from 11 to 62, from different walks of society and representing equally both the sexes.

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The "Muscles Of The Mind" Need Daily Workouts

The Right Place, Time And Posture For Meditation

It All Depends On What Your Objective For Meditation Is
People make a great fuss over the right place, the right time and even the right posture in which to meditate. They are not to blame; with the flood of self-help books on meditation available on bookshelves and on the online sites, it is quite easy to feel confused.

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The Power of Group Meditation

The Latest Attempt To Align Mental Energies Across The World


Background: On 17th July 2007, at 11:11 GMT, many people around the world sat in meditation for an hour. The purpose behind this group meditation was to "restore the natural flow of energy from God to us, from God to the Earth, and from person to person". How good are such group meditation sessions?

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Meditation: Don't Struggle With Your Thoughts...

... Shift Your Attention To Calmness

Keywords
Meditation, Detachment, Meditation Diary, No-thought meditation

Background
All the time we read about meditation being a "no-thought" state of mind; and in our hurry to achieve this state, we fight with these thoughts as they flit through our mind with gay abandon - outside our control. Our own thoughts. And we cannot control them! Our own mind. And we don't have any hold on it!

The trick with thoughts is not to fight with them. This post looks at the how.
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'I Go To Sleep Whenever I Try To Meditate'

How This Initial Proneness To Sleeping May Be Actually The First Step Towards Raising Self-awareness

Keywords
Meditation, sleep debt, conscious mind, central fatigue, tryptophan, serotonergic pathway, reticular formation, CNS, Meditation Diary
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Which Nostril Are You Breathing Through, Right Now?

A Very Subtle Aspect Of Meditation That Is Often Overlooked
KeywordsMeditation, nose, nostril, eupnoea, death rattle, agonal breathing, nasal patency, ultradian periodicity, cerebral hemispheric dominance
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Why Meditation CDs Can't Turn You Into A Buddha

Most CDs Have Good Relaxing Music - At Best They Are Alpha-State Inducers

Keywords: meditation, brain, cortex, insula, central sulcus, brain entrainment, resonance, alpha wave, theta wave, electrical activity, frequency

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Gamma Entrainment CDs - Let's Not Follow The Herd, Yet

There's Still More Research To Be Done On Gamma States Of The Brain

Summary:
The announcement in 2004 by Dr. Richard J. Davidson of having measured incredibly high gamma wave formation in the brain of Tibetan Monks during their meditation on compassion, has led to a flurry of Gamma Entrainment CDs in the market. Are they really useful? This article cautions against jumping to conclusions about Gamma induction, till more research results come in.

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