Comments on: How God (or more precisely, meditation) changes your brain

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:43:52 +0000

It is very obvious that yoga first make impact on your mind in positively, so if you make your mind in right manned so all diseases automatically leave you, because mind it server of your whole body..

By: brain meditation

brain meditation — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:15:08 +0000

Great post Tom. Thanks for sharing your valuable information and views on meditation and its positive influence on the human brain. Meditation not only enhances the brain but it also helps to attain peace and happiness in our mind.

By: vel

vel — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:45:02 +0000

How about just putting “meditation increses brain size” and not make a sensational and untruthful claim about any particular religion’s deity?

I think Mark Twain had it best with what faith is: “Faith is believing something you know ain’t true.” and not “faith is equivalent with hope, optimism and the belief that a positive future awaits us. Faith can also be defined as the ability to trust our beliefs, even when we have no proof that such beliefs are accurate or true.””

Why use a word, “faith” that already has a meaning to suddenly become the meaning of other perfectly good words like “hope”, “optimism”, “positive thinking” and “trust”? We can have lots of evidence for those things, just like we have evidence that meditation and not “God” has influence on the brain.

By: Heath

Heath — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:19:21 +0000

Anything that encourages the notion that silence (or, in this case, meditation) is not evil is okay with me!

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:22:06 +0000

I can’t believe that anyone actually believes this stuff. Planetary consciousness? Give me a break. Maybe a quick science course in physics would help you guys out. The mind has nothing to do with any of this. It’s just a wannabe wishful thinking process. Crazy? You bet.

By: Steve Kuok

Steve Kuok — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:02:47 +0000

Since becoming a Christian, all of my electrical appliances in the house that hadn’t work for more than 3 years started working again.
Does prayer performs miracle/healing or non meditated brain causes the reverse – damage / failure? Apply that to our planet, are we destroying the planet because humans are much less meditative/less godly, as compared to 50 years ago?
Apply that to Africa with no core religion/ meditative culture and that of past great civilistion , high in spiritual values ? Africa has no known advancment in civilisation throughout history as compared to many better parts of the world. Make sense?
I think so.

By: (Dr) Conrad (Borovski, ret Prof)

(Dr) Conrad (Borovski, ret Prof) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:39:48 +0000

Mr Heneghan’s professional occupation quite naturally inclines him to be swept off his feet by so imposing a title as Dr Newberg’s book and his academic background and position. It ought to be clear, however, that neither any god nor the subject matter of meditation influence the brain in the way these two gentlemen rather naïvely believe. If they extended their research, they would have to conclude that any intense concentration will show very similar results to their current findings. Errare humanum est…

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:08:31 +0000

Doing regular meditation increases awareness, reduces stress and helps the entire body mind system to attain the state of homeostasis.

Mindfulness is the meditation technique that I find most practical, it brings the person 100% into the present moment. There are however many forms of meditation that work for different persons depending upon their personality, upbringing, social and environmental factors.

http://www.clicktomeditate.com

website has articles, free guided meditation and other resources for everyone.

You may read about mindfulness meditation and try the meditation on this site:

http://www.clicktomeditate.com/mindfulne ss_meditation.html

By: Mitch

Mitch — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:54:27 +0000

http://lovevibe.blogspot.com/
Every Sunday we join Hearts and Minds in a Global Meditation to promote Individual and Planetary Consciousness.