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Connecting Mind, Body, and Spirit
Before the early 1970s, the benefits of meditation were not even suspected. Meditation held little appeal for Western medicine until a young UCLA physiologist named R. Keith Wallace proved that besides its spiritual implications, meditation had profound effects on the body. The mantra meditation very quickly produced profound relaxation and significant changes in breathing, heartbeat and blood pressure.
Millions of Westerners wrongly assume that this makes meditation non-physical, something you do in your head.
Unfortunately, our culture has made the mistake of deciding that the human body is a machine, an inert lump of matter that works without any intelligence of its own.
This kind of prejudice against the body runs contrary to the way that nature fashioned us. Nature balanced mind, body, and spirit as co-creators of our personal reality.
When the material, psychological, and spiritual dimensions are brought into balance, life becomes whole, and this union brings feelings of comfort and security. Only if you feel sure of your place in the universe can you begin to face the fact that you are surrounded by creation and destruction as they constantly play themselves out. You cannot defeat entropy as a physical force, but you can rise to a level of realization that is not touched by entropy.
Adapted from Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2007).
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add your comment »I have found that teaching simple meditation techniques, such as deep breathing is a helpful tool for most addicts. It works well for stress reduction and increasing their connection to their higher power.
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Thank you, Dr. Chopra. Carmelinda, what you have written has been proven to be a scientific fact. Brain wave patterns have been shown to differ during meditation. I am a proponent of sound therapy. Meditation on music recorded in the Alpha mode has completely eliminated scalph tension for me.
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Thank you Deepak.
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I would imagine all schools of meditation are being addressed. Who can say that one particular school of meditation will suit everyone. When it is about our connection with the Universe, then each individual has to find what suits them and their own soul. The power in the freedom of choice. Finding your own peace within.
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Meditation alters the brain. soon you can achieve the same focus outside of meditation as you once could only within meditation. This allows instant access to solutions and information. Yet even then meditation can still be used to access higher dimensions of intellect.
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when mentioning meditation its nice to mention the master who brought it to light this technique! Because if u dont do that there is no respect , if there is no respet towards the master there is no perfection in the line and the whole thing is full of wholes and dirthy spots, if the master is not fully enlightened than better to even forget about the technique. If there is no technique which is practiced 2 a day forget about purification and results! divdeepinside
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