Oct 12, 2005
Hi Friends !
Welcome to the current issue of 'The Meditation Weekly' - newsletter
from Meditation
is easy.com.
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In this issue
1. Quote
of the week
2.
Amusing fact of the Week.
3.
Scientific effect of Meditation
4. The
only place on internet where you can learn
Transcendental Meditation for
free !
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Quote of the Week:
"There is only one success
to spend your life in your own way. "
Christopher Morley
Here is another
one :
"
Your mind is the sole author of your destiny and your
success"
Anonymous
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Amusing facts of
the Week.
George
Washington seldom slept more than three or four consecutive hours in
any day during the Revolutionary war !!
Here is another
one :
To help
determine on what floor it should have it's offices in one of the
two 110-story skyscrapers of the World Trade Center, (unfortunately
none of these towers exists today),
in lower Manhattan, a Japanese company hired a soothsayer to throw
dice !!
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Scientific effect of
Meditation
Meditation, one of the most common mind-body interventions, is a
conscious mental process that induces a set of integrated
physiological changes termed the relaxation response. Functional
magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been used to identify and
characterize the brain regions that are active during meditation.
This research suggests that various parts of the brain known to be
involved in attention and in the control of the autonomic nervous
system are activated, providing a neurochemical and anatomical basis
for the effects of meditation on various physiological activities.
(Source : Lazar
SW, Bush G, Gollub RL, et al. Functional brain mapping of the
relaxation response and meditation. Neuroreport.
2000;11(7):1581-1585)
Recent studies involving imaging are advancing the understanding of
mind-body mechanisms. For example, meditation has been shown in one
study to produce significant increases in left-sided anterior brain
activity, which is associated with positive emotional states.
Moreover, in this same study, meditation was associated with
increases in antibody titers to influenza vaccine, suggesting
potential linkages among meditation, positive emotional states,
localized brain responses, and improved immune function.
( Source : Davidson
RJ, Kabat-Zinn J, Schumacher J, et al. Alterations in brain and
immune function produced by mindfulness meditation. Psychosomatic
Medicine. 2003;65(4):564-570.)
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Learn Transcendental
Meditation - for free !!
Or at least know
about what it is exactly
While surfing
internet, one day I found this and it's really worth mentioning here
:
The TM
Techniques - A Complete, basic summary of the TM, advanced TM, TM-Sidhi
and Primordial Sound techniques, collected together in one place.
Includes all the TM mantras. Provided for historical and research
purposes only (in other words, don't blame them for what happens if
you attempt to meditate with this data, and don't even think about
sending them international snail-mail with questions about
meditation.)
Here is the link for
this site :
Meditation
Information Network
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I hope you'll
thoroughly enjoy this issue.
Regards
Eklavya
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