Meditation
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1. Less emotional activity

2. Buddhist meditation for awakening love and compassion - you need to give to yourself before you can give to others - otherwise you are an empty cup - the heart is universally considered the source of love

3. Associated with enhanced attention - memory - and abstract reasoning ability

4. Never work with a meditation teacher if you have any doubts about his or her integrity!

5. Your focus of attention is on the silent repetition of a mantra/sing word (twice a day for 20 minutes)

6. Dis-identifying from false self or ego; identifying with real Self - you are much more than you see here in this physical body - as you are sitting here in this physical body - you are also existing in an inner world. That inner you - that broader -

7. Meditation that focuses on movements

8. Improvement in concentration - Enhanced ability to detect light flashes of short duration - Meditators show a pattern of greater initial arousal in response to aversive stimuli but faster recovery - Has been implemented in stress reduction and chro

9. Meditation accesses deeper levels of awareness and transforms how you perceive the emotions naturally.

10. 1. Longitudinal studies indicate significant reduction in cardiovascular mortality rate - cancer mortality rate - and overall mortality rate among meditators (Schneider et al - 2005) 2. Increased survival rate among elderly who were taught meditation

11. Allah - Allaha - kyrie eleison - adonai

12. Center all of your attention and desire on Him and make this the sole concern of your mind and heart; Focus on God and the center of your heart and make it soul object of attention and desire.

13. Different mode of knowing - sense of natural perfection - dissolution of boundaries - sense of timelessness - spontaneous action

14. Increased gray matter in the prefrontal cortex and the right anterior insula - as well as the hippocampus (learning and memory) - the cingulate cortex (emotional regulation) - and the temporo-parietal junction (empathy); it is associated with reducti

15. A lot of native cultures do it; dance that generates a certain energy

16. Processes space and time; may be related to sense of dissolution of boundaries between self and non-self

17. ey in terms of whether meditation is working or not. People who are satisfied are because their relationships are expanding. They are able to connect with other people.

18. You can only learn this from your teacher. It is advanced meditation technique. Manipulation of breath and energy

19. Physical yoga

20. Tend to be happier - more optimistic

21. Buddhist insight meditation (only do after you have done years of practice meditation)

22. Focus of attention - but in non-analytical (narrow) way

23. 1. Relief of depression and anxiety and prevention of relapse 2. Reduction of recidivism rates of prisoners 3. Improves attention

24. Buddhist meditation involving focus on the breath for long periods of time (before vapissana)

25. Meditation teachers as people who approach everything in an open - friendly - appreciative way