At this point, Transcendental Meditation (TM) is not confined to the Eastern hemisphere, where it appeared, but it is making waves in the Western World as well. It has caught on very well in the United States, where people view it as a way of relaxing at least, or getting in touch with divine powers, at the most. A n... |
9 October 2009
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Undergraduate students at the University of Oregon (UO) are currently being taught an attention-changing and stress-reducing body-mind technique that was adapted in the 1990s in China from ancient medicinal practices. The method, called integrative body-mind training (IBMT), can yield visible results in little more t... |
20 May 2009
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Ever since the Western world learned of the meditations performed by adepts of Eastern religions, experts have been fascinated by the influence that this religious practice has on the human brain. It would appear that, in addition to its relaxing purposes, meditation is also able to increase the size of certain brain... |
13 May 2009
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People have been trying to achieve heightened states of meditation for millennia, a part of cults present in many religions. But, with Buddhism, meditation is the centerpiece, and some practitioners can reach amazing results, which have been recently also demonstrated scientifically, in a recent issue of the Associat... |
28 April 2009
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A new scientific study claims that children and teenagers suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can experience a relief in their symptoms through the use of transcendental meditation. The paper also says that, when medical treatments fail, praying and meditating may prove to be a therapy wort... |
29 December 2008
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A recent study carried by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that more than 38 percent of all US health care system patients underwent or are still actively following a complimentary or alternative treatment, to the standard one, as prescribed by ... |
11 December 2008
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Lingon i Korg Software Creations has released an iPhone / iPod touch app called Meditation Timer. Your life will probably be just as good without it, but we reckoned that the “free for the first 5,000 customers” sign would most probably pique your interest.The official (App Store) description for Meditati... |
4 September 2008
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Is meditation really beneficial? The integrative body-mind training (IBMT), a type of meditation, has been tested by a team from Dalian University of Technology in Dalian, China, and University of Oregon on college undergraduate Chinese subjects, assigned to 40-person experimental or control groups. The control group... |
10 October 2007
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Meditation is like training for your brain. It has been proven to increase sensory speed. And now, a new research has shown that if you name your emotions, you can handle them. Putting negative emotions into words seems to calm down the brain's emotion nuclei, explaining the main goal of the meditation: to "let... |
2 July 2007
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If you think that just the muscles can be trained, you're wrong! Brain can be trained also. A new research shows how three months of intense training in a form of 2,500 year old Buddhist mediation known as Vipassana ("insight" in Sanskrit) can sharpen significantly the brain ability, especially attention to deta... |
10 May 2007
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