Dr Miguel Farias and Catherine Wikholm explain that while meditation has it's place in our lives it also requires further study before we treat it as cure all for mental illness.
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There is nothing much to say about meditation. This is the oldest practise by virtue of which one can control ones mind and the mind becomes the strongest tool for tackling any challenges that life may throw at us. Meditation is the tool described in the vedic scriptures and today it is accepted world wide as a potent and effective therapy.
Meditation will improve you intuitive abilities, helping you be more aware of the needs of others around you. Your health will improve greatly, for being more relaxed physically and mentally will allow your body to heal and repair itself with more efficiency.
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This is a presentation that I created for my Professional Skills class in November, 2012. It is an extremely rudimentary look at meditation -- I wanted to make it as simplistic as possible to be able to translate the importance and necessity.
Achieving the Mind, Body, Spirit and Emotions ConnectionGabriela Taylor
When we talk about the human body, most of us refer to the physical form that we see in front of us. However, in reality, every person is made up of four bodies, all of which interrelate to one another and coexist in harmony.
There is nothing much to say about meditation. This is the oldest practise by virtue of which one can control ones mind and the mind becomes the strongest tool for tackling any challenges that life may throw at us. Meditation is the tool described in the vedic scriptures and today it is accepted world wide as a potent and effective therapy.
Meditation will improve you intuitive abilities, helping you be more aware of the needs of others around you. Your health will improve greatly, for being more relaxed physically and mentally will allow your body to heal and repair itself with more efficiency.
Find out how to meditate properly and top 5 tips for daily meditations. Get more information on how to meditate properly @ http://www.YourBestMeditation.com
This is a presentation that I created for my Professional Skills class in November, 2012. It is an extremely rudimentary look at meditation -- I wanted to make it as simplistic as possible to be able to translate the importance and necessity.
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How meditation can reduce stress. This set of slides examines the types of meditation practices, mechanisms and rationale for meditation as a stress reduction technique, procedural guidelines and applications, efficacy based on peer reviewed articles, and lastly side effects and contraindications.
If students regularly practice meditating under proper guidance, they will be benefited in numerous ways. Some of the benefits of meditation for students are mentioned in PPT.
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The Top 100 Health Benefits of MeditationPaul Harrison
In 100 Health Benefits of Meditation, meditation author and teacher PM Harrison shares with you all the top health benefits of meditation, including how meditation is good for your body, mind, emotions, relationships, and lifestyle.
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction PresentationTony Fahkry
What is stress? We hear so much in the media about how stressed we are, that one invariably believes the news. In this seminar, we explore the fundamental principles governing stress. How much stress can we deal with? Are our bodies equipped to deal with stress? How can you change and empower yourself with the necessary tools to avoid falling into stressful situations? We teach knowledge and awareness using mindfulness, so the individual has a variety of coping strategies to face such situations in life.
How meditation can reduce stress. This set of slides examines the types of meditation practices, mechanisms and rationale for meditation as a stress reduction technique, procedural guidelines and applications, efficacy based on peer reviewed articles, and lastly side effects and contraindications.
If students regularly practice meditating under proper guidance, they will be benefited in numerous ways. Some of the benefits of meditation for students are mentioned in PPT.
+ 61-7-5641-0117
support@myassignmenthelp.net
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The Fundamentals of Good Ergonomics and Health ImprovementTony Fahkry
This presentation addresses the key factors to improve workplace ergonomics and overall health and wellbeing. It is not enough to focus on ergonomics without addressing health and wellbeing. We must focus on the entire process in an integrated manner. I outline how to setup your work area for optimal posture and reduce injury, while looking at the mechanisms of health and wellbeing that support it.
The power of meditation and how it affects our brainsBali Holistic
Let us explore how meditation can have healing effects for our body, our mind, our emotions, our soul, and the world. For meditation retreat visit our website http://www.baliholistic.com
Think atheist population is skyrocketing and Christianity is dying? You're wrong! The percentage of population who do not identify with any religion (unaffiliated or atheist) has been growing steadily in the past few years. But in coming decades, religiously unaffiliated people are expected to make up a declining share of the world’s population, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center. The world is projected to become more religious — not less.
How religious diversity will prevail in the time to come? What will be the future of world’s major religious group? How we will cope with atheism and continuous decline in Christian population? Who’ll take the crown in 2050? Pew Research attempts to answer these questions by projecting the changing size and movement of different religious and non-religious groups through the year 2050 based on a variety of demographic factors.
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Seven common myths about meditation
There’s no scientific consensus that meditation can cure your mind,
body or soul - so don’t swallow the idea that there is a Buddha Pill
Meditation is becoming increasingly popular, and in recent years there have been calls for mindfulness (a meditative practice
with Buddhist roots) to be more widely available on the NHS. Often promoted as a sure-fire way to reduce stress, it’s also being
increasingly offered in schools, universities and businesses.
For the secularised mind, meditation fills a spiritual vacuum; it brings the hope of becoming a better, happier individual in a
more peaceful world. However, the fact that meditation was primarily designed not to make us happier, but to destroy our
sense of individual self – who we feel and think we are most of the time – is often overlooked in the science and media stories
about it, which focus almost exclusively on the benefits practitioners can expect.
If you’re considering it, here are seven common beliefs about meditation that are not supported by scientific evidence.
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Myth 1: Meditation never has adverse or negative effects.
It will change you for the better (and only the better)
Fact 1: It’s easy to see why this myth might spring up. After all, sitting in silence and focusing on your breathing
would seem like a fairly innocuous activity with little potential for harm. But when you consider how many of us,
when worried or facing difficult circumstances, cope by keeping ourselves very busy and with little time to think, it
isn’t that much of a surprise to find that sitting without distractions, with only ourselves, might lead to disturbing
emotions rising to the surface.
However, many scientists have turned a blind eye to the potential unexpected or harmful consequences of
meditation. With Transcendental Meditation, this is probably because many of those who have researched it have
also been personally involved in the movement; with mindfulness, the reasons are less clear, because it is presented
as a secular technique. Nevertheless, there is emerging scientific evidence from case studies, surveys of meditators’
experience and historical studies to show that meditation can be associated with stress, negative effects and mental
health problems. For example, one study found that mindfulness meditation led to increased cortisol, a biological
marker of stress, despite the fact that participants subjectively reported feeling less stressed.
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Myth 2: Meditation can benefit everyone
Fact 2: The idea that meditation is a cure-all for all lacks scientific basis. “One man’s meat is another man’s poison,”
the psychologist Arnold Lazarus reminded us in his writings about meditation. Although there has been relatively
little research into how individual circumstances – such as age, gender, or personality type – might play a role in the
value of meditation, there is a growing awareness that meditation works differently for each individual.
For example, it may provide an effective stress-relief technique for individuals facing serious problems (such as
being unemployed), but have little value for low-stressed individuals. Or it may benefit depressed individuals who
suffered trauma and abuse in their childhood, but not other depressed people. There is also some evidence that –
along with yoga – it can be of particular use to prisoners, for whom it improves psychological wellbeing and, perhaps
more importantly, encourages better control over impulsivity. We shouldn’t be surprised about meditation having
variable benefits from person to person. After all, the practice wasn’t intended to make us happier or less stressed,
but to assist us in diving deep within and challenging who we believe we are.
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Myth 3: If everyone meditated the world would be a much better place
Fact 3: All global religions share the belief that following their particular practices and ideals will make us better
individuals. So far, there is no clear scientific evidence that meditation is more effective at making us, for
example, more compassionate than other spiritual or psychological practices. Research on this topic has serious
methodological and theoretical limitations and biases. Most of the studies have no adequate control groups and
generally fail to assess the expectations of participants (ie, if we expect to benefit from something, we may be more
likely to report benefits).
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Myth 4: If you’re seeking personal change and growth, meditating
is as efficient – or more – than having therapy
Fact 4: There is very little evidence that an eight-week mindfulness-based group programme has the same benefits
as of being in conventional psychological therapy – most studies compare mindfulness to “treatment as usual”
(such as seeing your GP), rather than one-to-one therapy. Although mindfulness interventions are group-based and
most psychological therapy is conducted on a one-to-one basis, both approaches involve developing an increased
awareness of our thoughts, emotions and way of relating to others. But the levels of awareness probably differ. A
therapist can encourage us to examine conscious or unconscious patterns within ourselves, whereas these might be
difficult to access in a one-size-fits-all group course, or if we were meditating on our own.
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Myth 5: Meditation produces a unique state of consciousness that
we can measure scientifically
Fact 5: Meditation produces states of consciousness that we can indeed measure using various scientific instruments.
However, the overall evidence is that these states are not physiologically unique. Furthermore, although different
kinds of meditation may have diverse effects on consciousness (and on the brain), there is no scientific consensus
about what these effects are.
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Myth 6: We can practise meditation as a purely scientific technique
with no religious or spiritual leanings
Fact 6: In principle, it’s perfectly possible to meditate and be uninterested in the spiritual background to the practice.
However, research shows that meditation leads us to become more spiritual, and that this increase in spirituality
is partly responsible for the practice’s positive effects. So, even if we set out to ignore meditation’s spiritual roots,
those roots may nonetheless envelop us, to a greater or lesser degree. Overall, it is unclear whether secular models
of mindfulness meditation are fully secular.
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Myth 7: Science has unequivocally shown how meditation
can change us and why
Fact 7: Meta-analyses show there is moderate evidence that meditation affects us in various ways, such as increasing
positive emotions and reducing anxiety. However, it is less clear how powerful and long-lasting these changes are.
Some studies show that meditating can have a greater impact than physical relaxation, although other research
using a placebo meditation contradicts this finding. We need better studies but, perhaps as important, we also need
models that explain how meditation works. For example, with mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), we still
can’t be sure of the “active” ingredient. Is it the meditation itself that causes positive effects, or is it the fact that
the participant learns to step back and become aware of his or her thoughts and feelings in a supportive group
environment?
There simply is no cohesive, overarching attempt to describe the various psychobiological processes that meditation
sets in motion. Unless we can clearly map the effects of meditation – both the positive and the negative – and
identify the processes underpinning the practice, our scientific understanding of meditation is precarious and can
easily lead to exaggeration and misinterpretation.
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Dr Miguel Farias has pioneered brain research on
the pain alleviating effects of spirituality and the
psychological benefits of yoga and meditation. He was
educated in Macao, Lisbon and Oxford. Following his
doctorate, he was a researcher at the Oxford Centre for
the Science of Mind and a lecturer at the Department
of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. He
currently leads the Brain, Belief and Behaviour group at
the Centre for Research in Psychology, Behaviour and
Achievement, Coventry University.
Catherine Wikholm read Philosophy and Theology at
Oxford University before going on to do a Masters in
Forensic Psychology. Her strong interest in personal
change and prisoner rehabilitation led her to be
employed by HM Prison Service, where she worked
with young offenders. She has since been working in
NHS mental health services and is currently completing
a practitioner doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the
University of Surrey. Miguel and Catherine worked
together on a ground-breaking research study
investigating the psychological effects of yoga and
meditation in prisoners.