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“Sitting meditation, also known as meditation, meditation, and meditation, is a basic Buddhist practice that first evolved from the ancient practice of sitting and kneeling. Zhao Happiness, Psychiatry Department, Wuxi Mental Health Center
China’s traditional meditation for health can actually be traced back as far as five thousand years ago to the time of the Yellow Emperor.
According to the book “Zhuangzi”, the Yellow Emperor once asked a man named Guangchengzi to learn the way to longevity, and Guangchengzi said: “No eyes and no ears, hold the spirit to quiet, the form will be correct. You must be quiet and clear, and there is no need for your form. If you do not have to be quiet, you can live a long life. The eyes have no sight, the ears have no hearing, the mind has no knowledge, your god will guard the form, the form is long-lived.”
The above insightful statement is in fact the true feeling in meditation and the way of longevity. Meditation can not only nourish the body and prolong life, but also open the wisdom and increase the wisdom, so the manifestation, tantra, Taoism, Confucianism and yoga all attach great importance to meditation.
The “Explanation of Meditation Paramita” says: “If you want to have all the Buddhas’ dharmas, meditation is the most important, like getting jewels, all the treasures are obtained.”
The “Explanation of the Secondary Dharma of Zen Paramita” says: “If you practice meditation by resting, you will quickly attain meditation.”
Dr. Harry, a professor at Harvard University and the University of Maryland, said after five years of research, “Meditation meditation can be very beneficial in improving the hormone levels of vision, blood pressure, and cognitive function, in addition to treating many incurable diseases and chronic diseases such as heart disease and arthritis.”
Bernie Segal, a surgeon at Yale University School of Medicine in the U.S. Segal also believes that “contemplative meditation is the action of loosening the mind and can cure AIDS and cancer, which are considered terminal diseases.”
Studies by Dutch scientists have shown that people who meditate and contemplate are 50 percent less likely than others to cause disease and 87 percent less likely to contract life-threatening serious illnesses.
In addition, scientists have found that the large number of alpha waves that appear in the brain during meditation can significantly promote the growth of a hormone hormone, which will cause blood vessels to expand and blood to flow smoothly, and will cause the body to significantly increase adenosine triphosphate, a substance indispensable for the metabolism of tissue cells, which will greatly increase the immune function of the body.
According to “World Technology Translation”, Robert Schneider, director of the Center for Natural Medicine and Prevention at the Maharishi University, said after years of research, that the body’s immune system will be significantly increased. Schneider said after years of research.
“Transcendental Meditation seems to restore the body’s self-healing mechanisms and self-balancing mechanisms, it works on both neurohormones and parts of the nervous system, thus helping to alleviate the symptoms of heart disease and some other diseases …… This technique is a natural and relaxing process that allows you to achieve a comfortable and quiet state of alertness.”
The researchers added: “If you meditate for 20 minutes twice a day, it is an effective way to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease and can be used as an adjunct to traditional heart disease treatment.”
Scientists at the University of Illinois in the United States on 40 students to meditate physiological experiments have shown that: as long as the meditation 5 to 10 minutes, the human brain oxygen consumption will be reduced by 17%, and this value is equivalent to the change after seven hours of deep sleep, and found that the concentration of lactic acid in the blood of the subjects called “fatigue factor”, also in different It was also found that the concentration of lactic acid, known as “fatigue factor” in the blood of the subjects, decreased to different degrees.
Hinayana Buddhism says, “If you sit for a long time, you will have meditation.” Meditation is not only a way to increase one’s power and heal one’s health, but also a way to enlighten and increase one’s wisdom.
According to a recent report on the New Scientist website: scientists at the University of Kentucky found that if you do not sleep all night, but just meditate for 40 minutes to make up for the lack of sleep.
The researchers let 10 subjects who had not slept all night to meditate, or read, or talk, or sleep, and then after 40 minutes they conducted a “mental action alertness test”, the results of the experiment shocked the researchers.
Although all the subjects had not practiced meditation, but after 40 minutes they were immediately able to have excellent performance. Subjects who took a 40-minute nap, on the other hand, needed at least an hour to wake up from their haze. Those who chatted and read, on the other hand, did not have the slightest help in regaining their energy, which shows that meditation meditation does have incredible help for the brain.
An Air Force base laboratory researchers in Ohio, the United States, engaged in brain research for decades, found that the human brain has several different types of activity, both 8 to 13HZ alpha waves, 14 to 25HZ beta waves, 4 to 7HZ theta waves, 1 to 3HZ delta waves. When our brain is in tension, emotional excitement or exhilaration, there will often be beta waves; and when we are in a quiet resting waking state, there will be alpha waves in the brain; and in extreme fatigue or sleep, the brain is δ waves; and adults are frustrated, depressed and psychiatric patients and children and teenagers, the general brain is theta waves.
Professor Wallace of Harvard University in the United States, in the practitioner to do the brain wave test when the relaxation found that: the human body is quiet, the head forehead area and the central area of the alpha wave intensity will increase significantly, the frequency of more than 20HZ slowed down to 8 to 9HZ. the original main division of the brain in the back of the occipital region of the alpha wave rhythm gradually transferred to the forehead area, its intensity increased by 425% to 525%. And the electrical activity of nerve cells was highly ordered and shifted at the same time to a degree four to five times higher than that without practice.
In addition, scientists have found that regular meditation increases the thickness of the prefrontal cerebral cortex and the right forebrain cortex, the areas that control a person’s attention and perception. Many scientists, writers, inventors and other famous people have a thick prefrontal cerebral cortex and their brain waves are at alpha wave frequency most of the time, which indicates that sitting meditation does make the brain agile and prone to inspiration.
The Dhammapada says: “Although the Bodhisattva’s body is far away from all beings, his mind is always unrelenting, and he seeks meditation to obtain real wisdom to measure everything.”
In the “Zhaodu New Compilation”, it is said, “The image of water is clear when it is still, and wisdom is born when the mind is still.”
According to geophysicists, the resonance of the ionosphere and the Earth’s Hewman wave is 8 to 14 Hz, and this frequency is similar to the brain waves of the human body when meditating in silence, so meditation in the spiritual realm of forgetfulness will occur in the resonance of human and heaven to realize the true meaning of life and the universe.
Scientists have also proved experimentally that through orderly training, the human body can learn to control and regulate its own brain waves, and when the body and mind are completely relaxed, its memory is almost endless, and found that these people’s memory has no obvious saturation point.
The scientist who discovered the superconducting section and won the Nobel Prize in Physics, Joseph? Sen once said, “Science has progressed so far that it is difficult to go on without the experience of meditative meditation.”
Many scientists believe that superconsciousness meditation is the highest technique for the brain to function at its fullest potential, and that it can subtly stimulate the power of the left hemisphere of the brain to influence the right hemisphere, thus maximizing the thinking ability of the right brain.
In summary, the role of meditation is not only to strengthen the body, prolong the life of the sick, open wisdom and increase wisdom, it also plays a positive role in the study of gongfu and the mysteries of human life science, and it even has far-reaching significance and role in the development of science and technology and the unraveling of the mysteries of the natural world.
Modern science proves that meditation can change brain structure. According to reports, American scientists found in 2005 that meditation not only relaxes your mind and stabilizes your heart, but also changes the structure of your brain and enhances your wisdom.
People who have practiced meditation say that the practice energizes them, and some say they only need a short period of sleep.
Although many studies have shown that brain activity changes in the form of brain waves and that the rate of spontaneous neuronal firing is coordinated during meditation, does meditation really have the same rejuvenating effect as sleep?
O’Hare and colleagues at the University of Kentucky (USA) have confirmed these questions through the “Psychomotor Alertness Assignment”. This is an accepted research method for testing the effects of sleep deprivation on a person’s mental acuity.
The researchers asked the subjects to stare at the computer screen, as soon as they saw an image appeared on the button. Typically, people respond within 200-300 milliseconds, but a sleep-deprived person will take a long time, and sometimes not even be aware of the image at all.
O’Hare and others let 10 more tired subjects do the above test after 40 minutes of sleeping, meditating, reading or talking, respectively.
What shocked the researchers was that although all the subjects had never practiced meditation, after 40 minutes of meditation, they immediately had excellent performance; while after 40 minutes of nap, the subjects needed at least 1 hour to wake up from the haze and make a better performance; reading or chatting did not help to restore energy.
O’Hare said that the subjects’ performance on each part of the test improved after 40 minutes of meditation. The effect of meditation was particularly striking when the subjects did not sleep for a night. Scientists do not yet know why meditation is energizing, and they are studying people who spend several hours a day meditating in hopes of finding answers.
Dr. LaRoche and colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital compared the brain MRIs of 15 volunteers with 1-30 years of meditation experience and 15 volunteers who had not meditated.
They found that meditation meditation really increased the thickness of cortical areas such as the prefrontal cerebral cortex and the right anterior insula, which are the areas that control a person’s attention and perception.
Previous studies have shown that some famous musicians, athletes and linguists have thickened these cortical areas. Both Lajo and O’Hare reported their studies separately at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, in November 2005.
It is worth noting that modern scientists’ studies of brain waves in these three states have revealed much of the same truths that are connected.
Beta waves (14 HZ or more) are the dominant state of beta waves for most of the time when a person is awake. As the beta wave increases, the body gradually becomes tense, thus reducing the ability of the immune system in the body, which increases energy consumption and makes people easily tired. Appropriate beta waves have a positive effect on the development of attention enhancement and cognitive behavior.
Theta wave (4-8HZ) When theta wave is the dominant wave, the person’s consciousness is in a half-awake, half-sleep dreaming state, the body is deeply relaxed and presents a highly suggestible state for external information, i.e., hypnotized state.
Theta waves are extremely helpful for triggering deep memory, increasing inspiration, improving creativity, and strengthening long-term memory, so theta waves are called “the gate to memory and learning”.
δ wave (0.4~4HZ) When δ wave is the dominant wave, it is deep sleep and unconscious state. The quality of human sleep is directly related to the δ wave. δ wave sleep is a dreamless and deep sleep state, if you call out a state similar to the δ wave when you are tossing and turning, you can quickly get rid of insomnia and enter deep sleep. Beauty sleep is the pursuit of this short but deep sleep. In addition, according to scientific research, δ wave is also the key to developing human intuitive radar system, as well as the mysterious power of superpowers.
There is another kind of brain wave: alpha wave (8-14HZ) When alpha wave is the dominant wave, a person’s consciousness is awake, but the body is relaxed, and it provides a bridge between the conscious and subconscious mind. Relaxed state: it is related to whether one’s mood is calm and easy-going, and whether one feels relaxed and happy; worry and tension will suppress the alpha wave, and the alpha wave is most likely to appear when one is awake and closes the eyes. In this state, the physical and mental energy consumption is minimal, and the brain is relatively more energetic, so it operates faster, smoother, more inspired and more intuitive. From the study of brain waves, we can find that the alpha wave increases significantly when meditation practitioners are in meditation, and the higher the power, the higher the voltage of the alpha and theta waves, and the better the synchronization and coordination of brain waves, the higher the voltage of brain waves and the coordination is that the energy in the “small universe” of the human brain increases and qualitative changes occur, and more nerve cell networks in the brain are refuted, which also means that It also means that the consciousness that is normally confused by external influences is transformed into a clear and pleasant state of consciousness, and the consciousness of worry and tension is reduced.
It can be seen that during the alpha state of brain waves, the gate between the conscious and subconscious mind is open, and the “short memories” of the body’s sensory consciousness can easily communicate with the subconscious mind.
Scientist Tesla and meditation
Meditation and science go hand in hand
There is a great scientist in the West named Tesla, who scientifically proved the same result that we experience when we meditate, a real “emptiness”, which some people call “God”, “Heaven”, “God”, “Heaven”, “God”, “God”. “heaven”, “Buddha nature”, “energy” or “quantum theory”… No matter what they call it, this “emptiness” does exist.
When we meditate, we let go of everything and enter this “emptiness” – the essence of everything – and then from the “emptiness” we transform into “something “It flows into us and makes us better and more intelligent, which is the purpose of Tesla’s research.
This “emptiness” comes from the inner side, which is the root of everything and where you and I come from, but since we have already formed this form, we might as well enjoy it.
Tesla and many other scientists have proven that everything does not exist in a solid state, as is commonly thought. The Buddha also proved that our physical bodies are just illusions. These statements are not mysterious at all and are very scientific.
When we look inward, we find that there is nothing, no body, no matter, but only a real world, a real energy, and that is our source. As long as we don’t think of ourselves as this physical body, we can understand that that is where we come from; that real energy is the source of everything, and that’s what Tesla said.
If we can communicate with this real “emptiness,” this real “being,” and separate it out, we can make full use of it to create everything, and use this energy to make cars and airplanes work, completely free of charge, without using oil, and without abusing the world’s No need to use oil, and no misuse of the world’s resources.
Perhaps in the future more scientists will confirm that meditation is real, and they will use scientific methods to transform “emptiness” into “existence”, while we will use our own bodies and minds to get this energy from meditation, to understand where we come from and where we will return to, and to understand that our nature is not this. And understand that our essence is not this physical body.
We must use this scientific explanation to clarify the mysteries of the practice. In fact, they are not mysterious at all.
A new favorite in American hospitals and schools: meditation
Once seen as an esoteric, mystical pursuit, meditation has now become mainstream in American society. Once seen as an esoteric, mystical pursuit, meditation has become mainstream in American society. According to a 2007 U.S. government survey, the meditating population in the United States exceeds 20 million, which means that one in 11 people have meditated in the past.
According to a 2007 U.S. government survey, the meditating population in the United States exceeds 20 million, or one in 11 people, who have meditated in the past.
More and more medical centers are also teaching patients to meditate to reduce pain and stress. More and more medical centers are teaching meditation to patients to reduce pain and stress. There are more than 200 different kinds of meditation classes in the various hospitals, most of which focus on a mental image, a sound or one’s own breathing.
In clinics and hospitals, there are more than 200 different kinds of meditation courses, most of which focus on a mental image, a sound, or one’s own breath. Although it may seem simple on the surface, this practice does work. Although it may seem simple on the surface, it does work.
Some foundations have also partnered with schools to offer classes for students to practice meditation on campus. Some foundations have also partnered with schools to offer classes where students can practice meditation on campus.
Teachers at Toluca Lake Elementary School in Toluca, California, say that teaching children to meditate can help them settle down, as well as increase attention span, focus and memory.
Teaching children to meditate can help them settle down while increasing attention span, focus and memory. Teaching children to meditate can help them settle down, while increasing attention span, concentration, and memory.
Stress reduction and disease preventionStress reduction and disease prevention
Some scientific studies have proven that meditation can indeed relieve pain, improve concentration and immune function, lower blood pressure, curb anxiety and insomnia, and may even help prevent depression. Some scientific studies have proven that meditation can indeed relieve pain, improve concentration and immune function, lower blood pressure, suppress anxiety and insomnia, and may even help prevent depression.
Reshaping Brain Function and Structure Reshaping Brain Function and Structure
With advanced brain-scanning technology, scientists have begun to demonstrate that meditation can directly affect the function and structure of the brain. With advanced brain-scanning technology, scientists have begun to demonstrate that meditation can directly affect the function and structure of the brain. A brain scan study of people who meditate for long periods of time, compared to another group of people who never meditated, found that the area of the brain that governs concentration and internal sensory acuity was thickened in people who meditated for long periods of time.
A brain scan study of long-term meditators, compared to a group of never meditators, found that the area of the brain that governs concentration and intra-body sensory acuity was thickened in the long-term meditators. These people would be aware of the muscle tightness caused by their anger or apprehension. These people will be alert to the muscle tightness caused by their own anger or apprehension.
A UCLA study in May found that people who meditated had a larger volume of the part of the brain responsible for attention and emotion regulation, and more gray matter in the brain, which can improve mental function.
A UCLA study in May found that people who meditated had more volume in the part of the brain responsible for attention and emotion regulation, and more gray matter in the brain, which improved mental function. In addition, there is an area of the cerebral cortex that naturally thins with age, and meditation can slow the rate of change.
In addition, there is an area of the cerebral cortex that naturally thins with age, and meditation can slow down the rate of change.
Promote brain activation to enhance antibodies Promote brain activation to enhance antibodies
University of Wisconsin neuroscientist Richard Davidson said his research found that even novice meditators have more activation in areas of the brain that are beneficial to humans. University of Wisconsin neuroscientist Richard Davidson says his research has found that even novice meditators have more activation in areas of the brain that are beneficial to humans.
The more activated these areas are, the greater the body’s antibody response to the flu vaccine and the more protective the vaccine is. The more these areas are activated, the greater the body’s antibody response to the flu vaccine and the greater the protective effect of the vaccine. By altering the brain, meditation affects many biological processes. By altering the brain, meditation affects many biological processes.
As research continues to expand, scientists are unlocking more of the mysteries surrounding meditation. As research continues to expand, scientists are unlocking more of the mysteries surrounding meditation. And for those who have been meditating for a long time, the benefits have long been self-evident. And for those who have been meditating for a long time, the benefits have long been self-evident.
Tim Ryan, a 35-year-old Ohio congressman, meditates for at least 45 minutes every day before leaving home, because the raucous proceedings on Capitol Hill make it necessary for him to refresh himself in order to deal with it with aplomb.
He said meditation helps him maintain clarity of thought and focus, which makes him a better listener and allows him to make quick, insightful analyses. He says meditation helps him maintain clarity of thought and focus, making him a better listener and able to make quick, insightful analyses.
I am more awake and enjoy my life more than I used to, he says. I am more awake and enjoy my life more than I used to be, he says.
Meditation” should not be new to you, and you know it is a way for people who want to meditate or practice. Meditation” should not be new to you, and you know it is a way for people who want to meditate or practice.
But what is the effect of meditation?
In March 2002, the BBC reported on the results of a study by Dr. Andrew Newberg of the Department of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, using modern imaging techniques to study meditation. The BBC reported in March 2002 on the results of a study by Dr. Andrew Newberg of the Department of Radiology at Penn State University Medical Center, using modern imaging techniques to study meditation.
Meditation Meditation into the Space of Forgetfulness
Dr. Newberg compared the changes in the active parts of the cerebral cortex of Tibetan lamas during and after meditation. Dr. Newberg compared the changes in the active parts of the cerebral cortex of Tibetan lamas during and after meditation.
He used a technique called positron tomography (SPECT) to compare the local blood flow tomograms of the lamas’ brains during and after meditation to observe changes in local blood flow in the brain and to infer which parts of the brain have increased and which parts have decreased during meditation to understand the activity of the cerebral cortex during meditation. He used a technique called positron tomography (SPECT) to observe the changes in local blood flow in the brain by comparing the local blood flow tomograms of the lamas after meditation in and out of meditation, so as to infer which parts of the brain have increased and which parts have decreased activity during meditation in order to understand the activity of the cerebral cortex during meditation.
It was found that the frontal lobe of the brain, which is the front part of the brain, has increased activity when meditating, but the occipital lobe of the brain, which is the back part of the brain, has decreased activity. The study found that the frontal lobe of the brain, or the front part of the brain, was enhanced when meditation was applied, but the occipital lobe of the brain, or the back part of the brain, was diminished.
Dr. Newberg explained, “Usually when people focus on a particular thing, the anterior part of the brain increases in activity, while the posterior part of the brain decreases significantly, an area that is generally thought to play a role in orientation, stereoacuity, etc. These results can explain why people usually have the feeling of forgetfulness and loss of time and space in meditation meditation, which is exactly what has been observed in the experiment.”
Spiritual Tranquility and Freedom of Mind and Body
Dr. Newberg spoke of how he had been thinking about reality, truth and God since childhood, and how these thoughts led him to use his expertise in neuroscience and brain imaging techniques to conduct research on the relationship between the brain, mind and religious practice, which helped to understand the impact of religious practice on mental and physical health.
He spoke of research that found a direct relationship between health and psychology and showed that meditation can help lower blood pressure, slow heart rate, reduce anxiety and alleviate depression, and he agreed that the study of the physical world and the inner world of humans can be equally beneficial to humans.
Dr. Neuberger also discovered a special phenomenon. Dr. Neuberger also discovered a special phenomenon.
In his research, he found that when people meditate, they experience “psycho-spiritual” experiences that are far more real than the things they feel in their daily lives.
This also indicates that the spiritual experience that people experience may be more intense and clearer than what we feel with our senses, and more real.