7 Fascinating Facts About Meditation"
 

" Over the last decade, interest in the science of meditation has skyrocketed. We now know more than ever before about just how meditation affects our minds and bodies. Increased research has led to a plethora of fascinating discoveries: Take, for instance, the fact that meditation can prevent heart disease. Or that it reduces stress. Or that it can significantly lessen ADHD symptoms, and in many cases, beats medication.

Still, much is left to be discovered. We know more but we definitely don't know everything. While we wait for science to catch up with ancient wisdom, check out this slideshow on the complex effects of the simple act of focused breathing. "

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0...Pain_Relieving

Great link Imad
 

This isn't rocket science. Maybe brain surgery, but not rocket science. :D But if we think just a moment about what a role stress plays in PD, imagine the possibilities of the "Anti-stress".

Here is a related link that I just found yesterday-
http://www.swamij.com/diaphragmatic-breathing.htm

The yogis say that if you control the breath, you control the body.

resonance
 

Good morning imark and all,

one of my therapists is a biofeedback/music specialist and he told me that i need to learn how to function (all the time??) in the "lower bands" (alpha-theta-delta) and that is not such a bad thing!!

deep relaxation is heaven!

from your article:

Quite literally, sustained meditation leads to something called neuroplasticity, which is defined as the brain's ability to change, structurally and functionally, on the basis of environmental input.

For much of the last century, scientists believed that the brain essentially stopped changing after adulthood.

But research by University of Wisconsin neuroscientist Richard Davidson has shown that experienced meditators exhibit high levels of gamma wave activity and display an ability -- continuing after the meditation session has attended -- to not get stuck on a particular stimulus. That is, they're automatically able to control their thoughts and reactiveness.












note * the emptinness of the above space is full :) ha ha

Khalil Gibran
 

Hi md,
I like your quotation of Khalil Gubran. Gubran wrote in English as well as Arabic. I read some of his Arabic books as well as his most known book in English, The Profit.
His writings evoke melancholy which he says that it is only the other face of happiness !
He so beautifully explains that reality goes beyond what we see, touch and feel and his insights make it easier for one to bear pain and suffering.
Imad

when language heals
 

you know arabic???wow!! I imagine the writing would read differently in arabic - each language has its own nuance.

here is an excerpt from John'O'Donahue "To Bless the Space Between Us" you might also like:

When the way is flat and dull in times of gray
endurance
May your imagination continue to evoke horizons.

When thirst burns in times of drought,
May you be blessed to find the wells.

May you have the wisdom to read time clearly
And know when the seed of change will flourish.

In your heart may there be a sanctuary
For the stillness where clarity is born.

Kind regards,
md

Yes!
 

Poetry and music do heal. Thank you md.
Imad

a quote from Rick's link:
 

"There is a story that goes like this:

Once upon a time, a student went to a great sage to ask about the meaning of life and how to attain the direct experience of the Highest.

He asked his question, but the sage gave no answer. He just sat there.

Again, the student asked about how to find and fulfill the Purpose of life. Again, the sage just sat there.

The student tried different words, and appealed with great emotion. The sage just sat there, as before.

Finally, the student became frustrated, and blurted out, in an angry tone, "Why don't you answer me!"

The sage smiled, and said, "I have been answering you, but you were not listening. The answer you are looking for is to be found only in Silence."

To sit in stillness and silence for even a few minutes each day is a very useful thing to do.

May you find that silence which leads to Silence.

Swami Jnaneshvara"