What is the name of the inner light seen when your eyes are closed?
While meditating I notice a soft swirling light that is mostly an orange.
Which appears like the flow of water as it drains from the bottom of a sink. It has colors at times, but I can’t control when they start or what colors to turn into. Does this have an effect on meditation? Is there a name for this phenomenon? Explain this, please? Thank you.
How to Train your Brain to Keep you Healthy and Happy
When you are unhappy what do you do? Do you go out for a meal? Go to the cinema? The theatre, perhaps? Do you go shopping? Perhaps you like a drink to overcome your unhappiness. Or do you get a buzz from jogging or going to the gym?
Whatever it is scientist are in the process of proving that internal change is the only thing that can give you health and happiness. Everything else is an illusion.
What does this mean?
Your brain is the only thing that can keep you healthy and happy.
Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin and Jon Kabat-Zinn from the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre have just completed some interesting research that can actually be of benefit to you and me and the way we run our lives.
They took a group of 41 stressed, but otherwise healthy, individuals working in a biotechnology firm in Wisconsin. 25 were taught meditation. In this case: mindfulness meditation. The group met for a 2.5 to 3 hour meditation class each week. After six weeks they all attended a seven hour meditation retreat. In addition each member was asked to meditate, at home, for one hour a day using a guided meditation tape.
The other 16 were held as a control group and did not receive meditation training until the study was completed.
At the end of the eight week programme, in November, they also gave all the participants a flu jab. And guess what. “The members of the meditation group had a significant increase in antibody titers” in other words they have less chance of catching flu.
The bottom line appears to be. If you want to have good health and overcome the day by day blues and maintain happiness learn to meditate. When you meditate you change the way your brain operates.
In addition, they found, the more you practice meditation the better your daily performance.
What we found is that the long time practitioners showed brain activation on a scale we have never seen before. Their mental practice is having an effect on the brain in the same way golf or tennis practice will enhance performance.” It demonstrates, that the brain is capable of being trained and physically modified in ways few people can imagine.
Any help on direct examination and cross examination in a civi trial in marin county california?
I am in pro per against Progressive Insurance over an injury suffered four years ago. I won their summary judgement and motlion to strike punitive damages motions. My foot is still fucked up, despite therapy, chiropractry and accupuncture. Days after the accident my doctor prescribed anti depressants effexxor and trazodone, because i could no longer depend on walking, running , hiking, which I had used eight years ago to get off the Prozac I had been usin for five years. I was clean of anti depressants for eight years, substituting plhysical regime, running, walking, hiking, vigorous sports activities. I have failed in attempts to get off these drugs, too scary and sickening, and want professional rehab, because i think with my new found yoga, tai chi, and meditation i can do it, but so many suicides listed from effesor withdrawl, i want professional help.
that runs about fifty thousand dollars, one month inpatient and outpatient care. how much should i ask for in court?
You are taking a big risk doing this yourself without an attorney, especially with future expenses. You should never settle until all the medical care is complete.
The Transcendental Meditation Program in a California Public School
Is ‘meditations’ by Marcus Aurelius an underrated book?
I guess it depends.
For the stoic it is not really as relevant as the works of say Seneca and Epictetus for understanding the philosophy itself.
Meditations is not so much the principles of a becoming a sage of stoicism, but more the practice of those principles and the insights that stoicism can offer for the individual.