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| Indian Law and Prison Reforms: Vipassana Meditation in Jail by Tue, 08/17/2010 - 11:36 — LIG Reporter http://www.lawisgreek.com/indian-law-and-prison-reforms-vipassana-meditation-jail | ||||
| Indian law and prison reforms received a new lease of life when Kiran Bedi introduced Vipassana meditation when she became the Inspector General of the Tihar Jail in 1993. She used Vipassana meditation programs to establish a peaceful and harmonious atmosphere in the prison. She wanted the prisoners to feel the need to be transformed into good individuals from within and be mentally strong to return to normal life. detail...2010-08-17 | ||||
| Buddhist Vihara offers metta meditation as solution for nightmares by Wildmind Meditation News (August 16, 2010) | ||||
| “Metta mediation” or “meditation of loving kindness” would become very easy to do with practice. One can practice metta mediation while sitting, standing or while being engaged in daily activities. Metta, a “pali” word, is translated to English as loving-kindness, friendliness, benevolence, friendship, amity or sympathy. It means wishing goodwill for your self and others, withholding all self-interests. As a result, your mind would be free of ill-will, hatred, jealousy and be filled with kindness, love and non-violence. detail...2010-08-16 | ||||
| Meditation helps increase attention span by EScience News, July 14, 2010 | ||||
| Berkeley, CA (USA) -- It's nearly impossible to pay attention to one thing for a long time. A new study looks at whether Buddhist meditation can improve a person's ability to be attentive and finds that meditation training helps people do better at focusing for a long time on a task that requires them to distinguish small differences between things they see. detail...2010-07-14 | ||||
| Meditation for Dummy by http://meditationinfocenter.blogspot.com | ||||
| So if you're a dummy or just a typical person who wants to learn how to meditate, do some research and you can instantly see the results. By finding a good meditation source, you can start learning about the basics. detail...2010-06-28 | ||||
| Anapana Meditation for Your Child by http://meditationinfocenter.blogspot.com/ | ||||
| Who says that meditation is only for adults? Today, even children can do meditation. Times are changing at a very fast pace. Even children are prone to stress and depression. They are too young to take many medications, and one great alternative is to find an appropriate meditation method for your child. detail...2010-06-28 | ||||
| The Effect of Positive Affect Induction via Metta Meditation on the Attentional Blink by Michelle Burgard, Christopher J. May (Carroll University) | ||||
| The attentional blink (AB) is a reduced ability to detect a stimulus presented too quickly (~500ms) after a previously detected stimulus. Mindfulness meditation reduces the AB, and has been explained in terms of the altered attentional
resource allocation skills of meditators (Slagter et al., 2007). However,
mindfulness meditation also increases positive affect (Davidson et al., 2003),
and positive affect has been shown to reduce the AB (Olivers & Nieuwenhuis,
2006). Thus, a positive-affect focused meditation (Metta) may also reduce the
AB. While brief practice of Metta meditation prior to engaging in an AB task
failed to significantly reduce the AB, these results are useful in determining an approximate effect threshold, currently unknown with respect to meditation
(Carmody & Baer, 2009). detail...2010-06-28 | ||||
| How meditation trains your brain by http://jehara.blogspot.com | ||||
| "Regular use may strengthen the connections between neurons and can also make new connections. These tiny changes, in thousands of connections, can lead to invisible changes in the structure of the brain." Like muscle-building, it makes your brain better at whatever it is you are asking it to do. Referring to the previous examples, musicians-better analyzation, mathmaticians-better at problem solving, meditators-better at, well, that depends. detail...2010-06-24 | ||||
| The path to bliss and wisdom by Ajahn Brahmavamso, Saturday, June 12, 2010 | ||||
| The best way to learn about meditation is to practise it, says Ajahn Brahm... detail...2010-06-12 | ||||
| Meditation-Related Brain Research and Its Treatment Implications by http://www.i-awake.net | ||||
| According to the Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills (KIMS: Baer, et al, 2004), mindfulness consists of nonreactivity to inner experience, attending to sensations and feelings, actions with awareness, labeling sensations and feeling states with words, and a non-judgmental attitude toward experience.
Sara W. Lazar and cohorts discovered this meditative practice to be correlated with increased cortical thickness in the middle prefrontal areas, as well as enlarged right insulas, in experienced practitioners (2005). Additional studies have revealed mindfulness practice and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) to animate neural structures involved in attention (Lazar, et al, 2000), serve as a viable treatment modality for ADHD (Zylowska, et al, 2008), counter the tendency toward diminished left-frontal activity in severe depression (Barnhofer, et al, 2007), and significantly reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms in bipolar affective disorder (Williams, et al, 2008). And according to Siegel, "[m]indfulness meditationappears to produce a left shift in frontal activation" (2007, p. 220). detail...2010-06-09 | ||||
| Insight Meditation: Let the Power of Your Mind Make a Big Difference by http://meditationinfocenter.blogspot.com/ | ||||
| It is very hard to handle stressful situations. Every individual should learn how to become aware of it and accepting it. One form of meditation which is very effective in dealing with the problems and difficult situations of life is known as mindfulness mediation or insight meditation. This is often considered by many people as a miraculous technique. detail...2009-11-19 | ||||