Buddhist-style meditation is shaking off its hippie image and gaining credence as an alternative to conventional medicine. Kathy Phillips meets the converts for whom the silent treatment has had startling effects.
I have typed some parts of the main document that make me feel kindly:
I have typed some parts of the main document that make me feel kindly:
- Quantum physicists have published measurements of the increase of gamma waves in the frontal lobe of long-term Buddhist meditators in comparison with those novice meditation students --gamma waves are at the frequency we need to make new connections in the brain.
- Feelings of anger, desire and addiction, for example, set off a habitual reaction in the brain which in turn sets off a cascade of biochemical events, some of which result in changes to the nucleus of the cells.
- Living in the moment, aware and focused, but without judgement.
- Learning to tame what the Buddhist call our "monkey mind" -- the internal chaos that keeps us flitting back and forwards, obsessing about the minutiae of life -- can be frustrating and elusive.
- Dr. Kabat-Zinn using Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction for a randomised clinical trial, found that when patients with psoriasis listened to meditations tapes during ultraviolet-light therapy they healed about four times faster than a control group.
- What has amazed me is that often I would make vital decisions in life based on the 650000 thoughts we have a day just constantly playing like a film that has no end. Taking the time out to sit, close my eyes and go inwards, allows me to create a distance from this chatter.
- Dr. Horsewood said "I think it is simpler for someone to accept taking responsibility for their healing that feel blame for what has happened."
- Buddhism is like defragging the hard drive.
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