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Most popular page last month:
Meditation explained in 60 seconds.
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Meditation Reduces Loneliness and Expression of Inflammatory Genes
Read the entire article here.
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tad now included in the meditationSHIFTcourse!
Visit our new site to learn about the meditationSHIFT course.
The course was designed to help you understand your mind and the challenges it creates, and show you how to deal with them.
Our blog is now hosted on the website, and you can find insightful articles on your mind and the struggles it causes your daily life.
Key links:
meditationSHIFT home page
the tad blog
Meditation explained in 60 seconds
The course was designed to help you understand your mind and the challenges it creates, and show you how to deal with them.
Our blog is now hosted on the website, and you can find insightful articles on your mind and the struggles it causes your daily life.
Key links:
meditationSHIFT home page
the tad blog
Meditation explained in 60 seconds
14 Executives Who Swear By Meditation
Business Insider put together a list of 14 Executives who meditate. They include leaders from Salesforce.com, Panda Express, Def Jam, Green Mountain Coffee, Tupperware, and - of course - Oprah!
Read the entire article here.
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Meditation Fights Cancer and Promotes Longevity
"Calmly meditating produces exciting, beneficial effects on your body. It can protect your DNA against cancer-promoting genetic developments and free you from everyday stresses and distractions. That's why meditation is one of the most powerful, but often neglected, tools for maintaining optimal health."
Read the entire article here.
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Read the entire article here.
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"The hardest thing is to be here. The mind suddenly sees itself as a prisoner. It struggles, resents, tears loose to do what it has always done, to dream, to fancy, to race aimlessly like a squirrel in a cage, to hold conversations with itself – anything to avoid the reality of here. It becomes devious and cunning; it thinks and pretends to itself that it is not thinking. And suddenly it breaks out into a warm, satisfying fantasy, and the meditation is shattered. And then mind sees itself and realizes that to simply sit and be here is perhaps the hardest thing in the world."
- Howard Fast
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- Howard Fast
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Meditation Strengthens the Brain
Exciting research from UCLA:
"Eileen Luders, an assistant professor at the UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, and colleagues, have found that long-term meditators have larger amounts of gyrification ("folding" of the cortex, which may allow the brain to process information faster) than people who do not meditate. Further, a direct correlation was found between the amount of gyrification and the number of meditation years, possibly providing further proof of the brain's neuroplasticity, or ability to adapt to environmental changes."
"The cerebral cortex is the outermost layer of neural tissue. Among other functions, it plays a key role in memory, attention, thought and consciousness. Gyrification or cortical folding is the process by which the surface of the brain undergoes changes to create narrow furrows and folds called sulci and gyri. Their formation may promote and enhance neural processing. Presumably then, the more folding that occurs, the better the brain is at processing information, making decisions, forming memories and so forth."
Read the entire article here.
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"Eileen Luders, an assistant professor at the UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, and colleagues, have found that long-term meditators have larger amounts of gyrification ("folding" of the cortex, which may allow the brain to process information faster) than people who do not meditate. Further, a direct correlation was found between the amount of gyrification and the number of meditation years, possibly providing further proof of the brain's neuroplasticity, or ability to adapt to environmental changes."
"The cerebral cortex is the outermost layer of neural tissue. Among other functions, it plays a key role in memory, attention, thought and consciousness. Gyrification or cortical folding is the process by which the surface of the brain undergoes changes to create narrow furrows and folds called sulci and gyri. Their formation may promote and enhance neural processing. Presumably then, the more folding that occurs, the better the brain is at processing information, making decisions, forming memories and so forth."
Read the entire article here.
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Visit MEDITATIONSHIFT