Brain Plasticity and Transcendental Meditation with Dr Fred Travis

Dr Fred Travis explains what happens to the brain when someone practices the Transcendental Meditation technique.

http://www.tm.org

All experiences changes the brain and nothing changes the brain like transcending.

Fred Travis: Mr Lynch and Dr Hagelin gave a very compelling image of a Unified Field at the basis of our thought, at the basis of our behavior and these compelling images have concrete reality in the functioning of our brain. The quality of the functioning of your brain determines the quality of the functioning of your mind.

If you want a creative mind you need a creative brain. If you want a calm and alert mind you need a restful and alert brain. This relationship goes the other way as well - the brain not only generates experience but also each experience we have changes the brain.

Every time you see something, you hear something the words now going into your ears are creating this cascade of electrical activity in your brain. Individual neuron by individual neuron is sending the information and you have as if these connecting hands, we have this delicate network over your brain and that's what lets you see. That's what lets you decide and every time you have an experience that network gets a little stronger.

Your brain is a RIVER it's not a ROCK. Indeed 70% of your brain cells change every day. What we have here is an example of 2 dendrites. Dendrites are where one cell takes in information and these little bumps that you see are called dendritic spines, this is where one neuron is communicating with this neuron. You have 100 billion neurons in your brain, each one get input from about 10,000 other neurons every second. You could imagine getting 10,000 phone calls every second and trying to integrate it together into one coherent output.

One of the most research ways to improve holistic brain function is through practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique.

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• Brain
• Plasticity
• Transcendental
• Meditation
• Fred
• Travis

[LoveECPR]

I'd love to have somebody teach me this stuff but paying $1500 is way over my budget. There's several Yogi's & Monks out there willing to teach all kinds of meditation technique without fees just because they want to help others. Personally the price says "shady" to me and adding a corporate label just makes me think there's a better alternative. Having $1500 to throw and not miss is a huge luxury to a lot of people including myself.

[meditationchannel]

@LoveECPR More than five million people worldwide have learned TM — people of all ages, cultures, and religions. As with other educational organizations, we do our best to offer financial aid to those with demonstrated need. Ask your local TM teacher to find out more about reduced fees

[trank31337]

meditation is great, but it is insane to think that you have to pay somebody $1500 to tell you to sit still and repeat a mantra. get a friend to do that for free. or ill cut the cost in half and do it for $750! either way though, meditate!

[awakearound]

At first I thought TM was a bit expensive. But after having read a lot of the research I realized it was probably worth it. If someone was to now offer me a million dollars to stop practicing, I wouldn't even be slightly tempted. TM is the best thing that's ever happened to my life. If you really want something, you can get it--the honest way.

[mohawkification0]

@LoveECPR I was fortunate to find a teacher who charged on a sliding scale based on income and I paid significantly less thnt $1500. However, in retrospect, I would give anything to have learned this technique as it's values are truly priceless.

[ExtraterestrailProof]

Awesome vid, not that I really need to say it. :)

[clearelite]

@RonSkem Are you suggesting you can only learn the brand known as "TM" by spending relatively large amounts of money. Do you think someone could learn "TM" for free? Also, does spending more money always guarantee better results? Or, can you spend peanuts and get gold. Also, monkeys are rather expensive, just saying. Maybe you can trade monkeys for gold.

[ralax3]

Think and stop accepting anything just for the sake of hope.

[RonSkem]

@trank31337

> meditation is great, but it is insane to think that you have to pay somebody $1500 to tell you to sit still and repeat a mantra... <

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There's an old saying: "You get what you pay for". There's another saying: "If you spend peanuts you get monkeys". In other words, if you want the best and most effective form of meditation, which is backed by  independent scientific studies and is endorsed by The American Heart Association etc, then look at learning TM.

[optionsupdate]

why cant you find out how to do TM

[sailbeyondthesunset]

@awakearound Is TM a form of meditation where you just focus on your breathing?

[teacher2707]

@trank31337 - Perhaps it is as insane to attend Harvard or Yale. Why pay the huge tuition cost? Learn it yourself on the internet! Then again, some of us are aware that if we want the best results we should "go for the highest." Learn it from a trained teacher of Transcendental Meditation if you want to experience the proper result.