Make Your Brain Work Faster – in just 80 mins!
Courtesy PsyBlog, here is how cognition can be accelerated by just 4 x 20 minutes Meditation:
…In a new study reported in the journal Consciousness and Cognition…researchers found significant benefits for novice meditators from only 80 minutes of meditation over 4 days (Zeidan et al., 2010).
Despite their very brief period of practice — and compared with a control group who listened to an audiobook of Tolkein’s The Hobbit— meditators improved on measures of working memory, executive functioning and visuo-spatial processing.
An ascetic, in the Yogasana pose. dated from 8th century.
Image Source: Museum of Trivandrum, Kerala; Courtesy: HinduWisdom.info
The authors conclude that even as little as “...four days of meditation training can enhance the ability to sustain attention; benefits that have previously been reported with long-term meditators.“
The article goes on to talk about something called “Mindfulness Meditation”. I am keen to hear from those of you who are familiar with Yoga and ancient Hindu meditation techniques, if there is anything equivalent in the practice of traditional Yoga. Thanks.
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Oh yeh . works wonders. totally turned around my grades and my efficiency increased exponentially . my folks were shocked at how i could finish studying for a semester exams in a few hours while my friends used to call at 2AM for doubts
meditation works
Ofcourse Yoga works and so does meditation. The fact that these two are very popular is precicely because they work. It has been my personal experience that with Yoga one’s health and concentration improves.
Meditation certainly calms one down and reduces the stress level. I found it very helpful in stress ful situations. However the benefits of mediation are not just material after a while there is definitely some spiritual transformation too!
Shantanu,
Midful mediation is nothing but bowlderization/plagiarization of Vipasana meditation.
Here’s an excerpt from Rajiv Malhotra’s article “Panch (Five) Asymmetries in the Dialog of Civilizations: A Hindu View”
http://www.barnard.edu/religion/defamation/malhotra.htm
“some Indic theoretical models are at the center of the philosophy of quantum physics based emerging worldviews. But many ancient Hindu-Buddhist inner science discoveries are being mis-appropriated and/or plagiarized:
‘Lucid Dreaming’ is the western name for Indo-Tibetan nidra yoga, and Stanford’s Stephen LaBerge is nowadays the acknowledged discoverer.
‘Mindfulness Meditation’ is Jon-Kabat Zinn’s trademarked repackaging of vipassna.
Herb Benson repackaged TM into his ‘Relaxation Response’ and now runs a multimillion dollar business based at Harvard, claiming these as his discoveries. Numerous spin-offs in mainstream stress management and management consulting theories came from this source.
Rupert Sheldrake recently ‘came out’ in an interview acknowledging that his famous theory known as ‘Morphogenic Resonance’ was developed while researching in India’s ashrams.
Ken Wilbur started out very explicitly as an interpreter of Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy for the benefit of psychologists, but now places himself as the discoverer on a higher pedestal.
Esalen Institute appropriated J. Krishnamurti and numerous other Indic thinkers into what its contemporary followers regard as it own ‘New Worldview’.
Thomas Berry, Brother Keating (successor to Bede Griffiths), and others have constructed the New Liberal Christianity, using Indic appropriations. Jewish scholars have likewise constructed the ‘non-dualistic Kabala’ based on Vedanta.
This is only part of a long list: the core of the emerging ‘western’ worldview and cosmology involving physics, cognitive science, and biology is being rapidly built upon repackaged Indic knowledge, but too frequently the source is being erased and over time. Yogis and meditators, who should be regarded as co-discoverers, usually remain anonymous ‘laboratory subjects’ and native informants.”
These ones are nothing but poor copies of the ancient techniques..
The people who copy have imperfect knowledge of the science and copy partially thinking, and ‘optimize’ the technique..
And yes, DEFINITELY the benefits of equal and great magnitude ARE obtained through traditional yoga and meditation too.. absolutely no doubt about it..
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