The Science of Meditation

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The Aspen Institute

The Aspen Institute

8 жыл бұрын

Published studies have documented the many physical and mental health benefits of meditation, including decreased pain, better immune function, less anxiety and depression, a heightened sense of well-being, and greater happiness and emotional self-control. Google Scholar turns up almost 700,000 research documents on meditation, among them imaging studies that show increased activity in brain regions associated with attention, a higher volume of grey matter, and lessened amygdala response to emotional stimuli. What actually happens in the brain when we meditate? Why is meditation so nourishing to the mind, body and spirit?
Perri Peltz, Interviewer
Bob Roth
UNDERWRITTEN BY WELLTOWER

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@tracyhill6166
@tracyhill6166 2 ай бұрын
This video aged very well. Meditation has changed my life. It's the best thing I have ever done for myself. I do it twice a day and it's released me from painful human emotions. If you haven't tried it, give it a try for (at least) 10 minutes, twice a day. You'll find you want to do it more and more because it actually makes you feel high in a way that's indescribable. It's a gift you give your soul and I'm so grateful for the many wonderful KZfaq channels that have helped heal the hole in my soul. I want you to feel it too, so dear Internet stranger, do it for a month and watch amazing things unfold. ❤
@danieladea4584
@danieladea4584 7 жыл бұрын
I meditate for 20 minutes 5 days a week and I feel extreme wellbeing during meditation. :)
@juancito55
@juancito55 5 жыл бұрын
I can definitely see that.
@flouflis1a
@flouflis1a 5 ай бұрын
Then you are doing it wrong!
@powernotpain7143
@powernotpain7143 7 жыл бұрын
Great interview! Thank you for sharing this outstanding presentation. This is the best discussion on the evidence-based data around the benefits of meditation that I have found. This totally resonated with me. I just kept nodding my head through the whole session. Now I'm anxious to highlight your content in my project, "Power Not Pain," that I will launch before the end of the year. This concisely illustrates key messages that I want to convey and provides a comfortable insertion point for those who are not, as you say, "woo-woo". I don't believe in coincidence. This was just what I need to hear, exactly when I needed it. I can't wait to explore more of Bob's work, The David Lynch Foundation, and The Aspen Institute. Thank you!
@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked
@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked 5 ай бұрын
Indeed. Fellow Jewish brother.
@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked
@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked 5 ай бұрын
:3 He showed a video of women who faced severe domestic physical abuse. One even barely wanted to live, started to lose her hair from stress, and meditation gave her a great reset, and her hair started growing back. Some other woman of severe domestic physical abuse was helped, too. Some woman of war with PTSD was helped a lot. A lot of domestic abuse includes alcohol, and many think alcohol is safe. Lol. Most women don't carry pepper spray, since society doesn't really care to make that a habit for young girls. Most women don't know martial arts either (most Americans are fat, and being fat and martial arts are a bit polar opposites, but some fat people do martial arts). Also, marriage is an ownership system, and women didn't have rights until the last century. Plus, many push religious views that you need to stick with a partner through thick and thin, so that encourages violent men to find any woman who believes that so that they will take great punishment. Well, America is massively broken, and most won't even carry pepper spray, or close their eyes for 5 minutes, so I don't expect too much healing there. That's the pill capital. Get stuff done quickly, overly compete with people, and work excessively for a material obsession society. Guns are legal. That makes it a lot easier to kill for anyone who is losing their mind with a gun. Very good reasons to have low hopes, and mock America like I do very often for many years now. But this is interesting to know, since I'm better than the average American, and average person in health (vegan diet, supplementing nutrients for how bad nutrients are for everyone, sleep, meditation, breath work, fasting, herbs, etc.). Average is an insult in the age of a major breakdown.
@aaronfarkas6890
@aaronfarkas6890 7 жыл бұрын
Nice going, Bob and Perri...both, very fine people...thank you, as well, to everyone who commented...although I disagreed with at least one commenter...you're entitled to your opinion...Season's Greetings and Happy Holidays !!
@dannygraham7885
@dannygraham7885 4 ай бұрын
I exercise and Meditate, and I am a Christian and a writer and I love Emma Watson!!!
@jivanbansi9640
@jivanbansi9640 Ай бұрын
I, I, I, that's the illusion to be dissolved through meditation.
@Sp1n3c
@Sp1n3c 8 жыл бұрын
incredible ...
@ladygodiva61
@ladygodiva61 7 жыл бұрын
No one ever mentions Donovan in regard to David Lynch Foundation. He is also a big part of this Foundation.
@DJSTOEK
@DJSTOEK 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@abhipatil4844
@abhipatil4844 Жыл бұрын
good one
@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked
@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked 5 ай бұрын
:3 He showed a video of women who faced severe domestic physical abuse. One even barely wanted to live, started to lose her hair from stress, and meditation gave her a great reset, and her hair started growing back. Some other woman of severe domestic physical abuse was helped, too. Some woman of war with PTSD was helped a lot. A lot of domestic abuse includes alcohol, and many think alcohol is safe. Lol. Most women don't carry pepper spray, since society doesn't really care to make that a habit for young girls. Most women don't know martial arts either (most Americans are fat, and being fat and martial arts are a bit polar opposites, but some fat people do martial arts). Also, marriage is an ownership system, and women didn't have rights until the last century. Plus, many push religious views that you need to stick with a partner through thick and thin, so that encourages violent men to find any woman who believes that so that they will take great punishment. Well, America is massively broken, and most won't even carry pepper spray, or close their eyes for 5 minutes, so I don't expect too much healing there. That's the pill capital. Get stuff done quickly, overly compete with people, and work excessively for a material obsession society. Guns are legal. That makes it a lot easier to kill for anyone who is losing their mind with a gun. Very good reasons to have low hopes, and mock America like I do very often for many years now. But this is interesting to know, since I'm better than the average American, and average person in health (vegan diet, supplementing nutrients for how bad nutrients are for everyone, sleep, meditation, breath work, fasting, herbs, etc.). Average is an insult in the age of a major breakdown.
@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked
@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked 5 ай бұрын
The sound cuts out in part of it.
@dannygraham7885
@dannygraham7885 4 ай бұрын
I wish I could get the CE5 app!!!!
@dannygraham7885
@dannygraham7885 4 ай бұрын
Inagadda Di Vida!!!!!
@MoonEhnsea
@MoonEhnsea 8 жыл бұрын
I'm looking for brain scans taken during mediations. I would be grateful for sources or videos
@MindVersusMisery
@MindVersusMisery 7 жыл бұрын
Look up Richard Davison. He has done exciting research on Buddhist monks which included fMRI scanning. There are some lectures with him here on YT. Peace out!
@anthonydelorenzo1029
@anthonydelorenzo1029 4 жыл бұрын
Title should be different, doesn't really get into the science that much.
@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked
@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked 5 ай бұрын
Fellow Jewish brother.
@jivanbansi9640
@jivanbansi9640 Ай бұрын
Spirituality is annihilation of the quintessential false God, ego. At least you realize Religion is Spirituality contaminated with politics.
@devpaul7259
@devpaul7259 5 ай бұрын
😮
@dannygraham7885
@dannygraham7885 4 ай бұрын
When I can't sleep, I Meditate to sleep!!!!
@jivanbansi9640
@jivanbansi9640 Ай бұрын
Wow, that's a lot going on considering there is no "I" ego entity in reality. Must be very tiring for you, don't know how you can sleep!
@simonscott1876
@simonscott1876 6 жыл бұрын
peace in the middle east lol dream on
@moonsod1113
@moonsod1113 7 жыл бұрын
Meditation is not the universal panacea for all things. I have meditated over 40 years. I did Tm for more than 20 years and it caused insomnia in me. i also had, at the end, high blood pressure. I resent people making sweeping claims for meditation. Today I am enlightened and still meditate every day. You cannot reduce everything down to stress. I know meditation can produce great changes, but that does not mean it has the answer to every problem.
@AntilawZ1
@AntilawZ1 7 жыл бұрын
Moonsod so you claim to have gained hypertension and insomnia after 20-40 years of meditation? Were you meditating with intention of, ex: manifesting balance, perfect health, and unconditional love? We must also change our thinking, the subconscious mind of most is full of conflict and disease that must be resolved.
@moonsod1113
@moonsod1113 7 жыл бұрын
Actually it is a bit unfair to claim that meditation caused a physical manifestation of unbalance in the body, as that might have been latently there but not yet manifest. My point was that meditation does not cure everything in the body. Changing your thinking does not change the unconscious mind, and having any intention during meditation interferes with the free flow of consciousness and is self-negating. And it is lying to yourself. saying, I am love, when you are not, creates conflict in the mind, as Krishnamurti pointed out. Some things you have no control over as they are inherent to the personality you inherited at birth. That personality will always be the way it was. You did not create it. All you can do is to transcend it and know yourself as the Eternal Self, knowing that you are not he small self manifest for one lifetime only.
@Chartoise
@Chartoise 7 жыл бұрын
Hahaha... a complaining person that claims to be enlightened.
@umasarat2983
@umasarat2983 6 жыл бұрын
No, it does not cure Acne or ingrowing toenails! Sorry!! You are yet to be enlightened!
@Hypnotica420x
@Hypnotica420x 6 жыл бұрын
your lack of faith is why you failed at meditating.
@rajahmanokharan4347
@rajahmanokharan4347 7 жыл бұрын
please don't even try to sell your transcendental meditation ,
@lazybear5030
@lazybear5030 6 жыл бұрын
Rajah Manokharan When he started talking about transcendental meditation I tripped out. Our brains really do produce these psychedelic chemicals.
@jivanbansi9640
@jivanbansi9640 Ай бұрын
Coke a Cola, Coke a Cola, Coke a Cola, Wake me up before I'm brain dead.
@rebekah1216
@rebekah1216 4 жыл бұрын
I feel like one needs to be male in order to achieve such meditative mastery. Their larger grey matter had a built- in "Nothing Box" and can easily zone out anywhere, even during serious conversations. (Cheaters..lol) ALL of this drrp consciousness stuff is presented in such a "logical-left brained structure point of view.....I just know that if I stare in a mirror long enough, I start to see myself simultaneously from "outside" myself ...like my higher self observing my lame embarrassing Ego persona.....also, I always tell people about my "malfunctioning- hypersensitive Amygdala" to take the edge off my crazy over-reactive displays....so how funny he mentioned thay exact element....also, I was granted SSI 3 years ago (shamefully) due to PTSD and bipolar disorder severe enough that I cant leave my house for weeks at a time and only for appointments whrn I do. Commenting in public like this us me trying my hardest attempt to socialize. I went through a series of shockingly traumatic events and it just stole something indescribable within....he may havve counseled one of my ex's in the prisons. Even hearing the women's stories is activating my own memory-induced panic switch ..I gotta try and do this right now, thank you.
@PhillipYewTree
@PhillipYewTree 4 жыл бұрын
The “chairman” is introducing the panel of distinguished speakers, and is reading the statement from notes on his pda. What an insult. If he can’t do his homework and learn what to say fir a sincere and warm welcome then he does not deserve the honour of giving the introductions.
@msconnleon
@msconnleon Жыл бұрын
Can't take any of these people seriously 😅
@tunisiandoctor3892
@tunisiandoctor3892 5 жыл бұрын
The blond woman is very very very very very blond.
@karil6461
@karil6461 Жыл бұрын
The host is not listening at all to the guest. Very poor interview skills that don't branch naturally from the topics that was discussed.
@dannygraham7885
@dannygraham7885 4 ай бұрын
But my beautiful friend Emma Watson is probably already Married!!!
@dannygraham7885
@dannygraham7885 4 ай бұрын
I hope to marry my beautiful friend Emma Watson!!!!
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