The Effects of Meditation on the Brain

[shamelessfootfucker]

I just hope I won't start talking like this guy when I get the hang of meditating

[ididjaustralia]

:)

[Ondal2]

I meditate almost everyday myself and I know how good it feels. Its definitely a positive thing in my life. But I have a hard time taking John Hagelin etc serious when they refer to so amazing studies, and they also say meditation basically only give these amazing effects if you use exactly THEIR technique, which is SECRET. WTF? As I understand, you have to get a personalized mantra, otherwise it wont work. So you have to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars. That part just sounds like pure BS.

[10templetons]

..but it's an obsolete view of human potential. hahaha

[clmrd5]

pseudoscience alert

[TheLonelyImmortal]

Look up the David Lynch Foundation. He's the president. He's not a neuroscientist or even a psychologist, necessarily.

[angelwhite]

After watching this, spent over an hour trying to figure out how to do it. Ultimately decided it's a charlatan's ruse:

1. No one will say what it actually is or how to do it

2. It always costs money to learn (thousands of dollars)

3. They say you can't learn it from a book or other source

4. One of the sources went on and on about chakras (magic locations on the body)

5. They say it uses mantras, but John Hagelin's (this speaker) longer talk (v=TfIqvZLIZz8 @ 5:05) says it is very different.

[JoshRom]

@angelwhite

1. sit

2. close your eyes and put earplugs in

3. focus on one thing (like the sensation of air flowing back n forth through your nostrils).

4. do it over n over.

[ogrish84]

Meditation is something that everyone should be able to do for free. Yet you want us to pay a large sum of money to just watch one lecture on the subject of Meditation

[h2321]

To perform Transcendental Meditation, first you have to imagine a repeating sound in your head. Close both eyes, keep repeating that sound in your head for the whole duration of the meditation and think of nothing else.

Best suited in quiet environment, and twice a day during morning and evening, for roughly 15-20mins each section.

[moonbaby625]

Thats amazing!!!

[BJ219]

Yeah, what type of meditation did they observe in this study?

[Jahaison]

Why do these talks have to be pay per view on Fora.tv?

[optimisticjames]

so how do you meditate?

[zentibs]

@optimisticjames

You may sit down, close your eyes, and be...

It's a progress.

EVERYONE can meditate

[ogrish84]

@optimisticjames You will have to pay $195 USD to find that out.

[DaDoctaBoom]

Speak English, Hagelin. 'Transcend' is not a work that should be used in a scientific explanation of the human mind.

[basmithtx]

@DaDoctaBoom  You might want to reevaluate the connotations you attach to the word.

[DaDoctaBoom]

@basmithtx That's the problem. The only meaning it can have here is connotational.

[OrginalKork]

So how do I meditate? Sit still and focus on my breathing for 30 minutes?

[fsmdidit]

@OrginalKork Yeah and you chant Luke Skywalker's mom's name or some shit.

[tomwash1]

@OrginalKork Yep to begin with at least. One of the hardest things is not getting annoyed at yourself for being crap at it.

[alphacause]

No wonder why Sam Harris is so smart. He is a big advocate of meditation, and he advocates a form of meditation that is divorced from religion or any religious dogma. That is an important point. After all, as much as meditation has been proven to utilize the plasticity of the mind to such an extent as to improve emotional wellbeing, IQ, memory, etc., nothing could retard this progress more than being preoccupied with superstitious nonsense - i.e. religion.

[Barklord]

@alphacause Obviously not all religious people are so stupid because they've known this and have been meditating for thousands of years. Did we really not know this until now? If we dig back into religious practices we find the roots of math and science just as much as bigotry and superstition. In fact, where would war be without science?

[1thruZ]

@alphacause Meditation has some great benefits but an increase in IQ isn't one of them. The study that he's referring to wasn't done by an accredited university and the tests used in the study were only "correlated" with scores on intelligence tests (according to the abstract). As for Sam Harris, he went to Stanford as an undergrad which was before he ever started his spiritual journey. I assume he was pretty smart then as well.

[Gnosis2078]

@alphacause I think you will agree there is nothing less intelligent than speaking definitively about something you do not know. Since you do not have a thorough knowledge of all spiritual disciplines you should refrain from deriding them as a category. If you have experience with certain religions then name them. Its ironic that you praise meditation and slam religion, given meditation would not exist if not for religion.

[ventura433]

nice clip too bad that we have to pay FORA for knowledge.

[freesk8]

@ventura433 TANSTAAFL.

You want free stuff? It will be likely to be rotten or useless.

You want useful or high quality stuff?

You will almost certainly need to pay for it.

Why? Because it costs money to integrate information.

Human labor and technology are valuable.

You want it?

You will have to EARN it.

[Umbalafum]

@ventura433 but for entertainment it's worth to pay?

[hotkonto]

@ventura433 Fora.tv does not care about spreading knowledge, they care about profit.

[unamaxify]

@ventura433

you can google for

Physicist John Hagelin & Transcendental Meditation

and find all the information from the video (<-i'm guessing here)

its more work & time-consuming that just watching his presentation

but then again its free.

because i'm cheap like that, i'm going the googling route.

if you wish i could send you links if i happen to find something worth while