David Lynch on Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain (Transcendental Meditation)

Thank you very much. It's good to be here in Boston, and thank you very much for coming here tonight. Hi. Hi. Yeah I teach film, I make films, um, I would like to know, I am not a meditator, what does meditation, can you say anything about how meditation might, connects to your creative process or to the, might help the creative process of my students or myself? Yes I can. Will you? Yes I will. Uh, tonight's talk is consciousness, creativity and the brain, and, uh, if you have a golf ball sized consciousness, when you read a book, you'll have a golf ball sized understanding. When you look out, a golf ball sized awareness, and when you wake up in the morning, a golf ball sized wakefulness. But if you could expand that consciousness, then you read the book, more understanding. You look out, more awareness, and when you wake up, more wakefulness. It's consciousness. And there's an ocean of pure, vibrant consciousness inside each one of us. And it's right at the source and base of mind, right at the source of thought, and it's also at the source of all matter. And Maharishi Mahesh Yogi teaches a technique called Transcendental Meditation, that's a simple, easy, effortless technique yet supremely profound, that allows any human being to dive within, experiencing subtler levels of mind and intellect, and transcend and experience this ocean of pure consciousness. This pure consciousness is called by modern physics "the Unified Field." It's at the base of all mind, and all matter. And they now say, modern science says, all of matter, everything that is a thing, emerges from this field. And this field has qualities, like bliss, intelligence, creativity, universal love, energy, peace. And it's not the intellectual understanding of this field, but the experiencing of it, that does everything. You dive within, and transcending, experiencing this field of pure consciousness, and you enliven it. You unfold it. It grows. And the final outcome of this growth of consciousness is called enlightenment. And enlightenment is the full potential of all of us human beings. And a side effect of enlivening this consciousness is negativity starts to recede. When I started meditating, I was filled with anxieties, filled with fears, kind of a depression, and anger. And I took this anger out on my first wife, and after two weeks of meditation, she comes to me and she says, "What's going on?" And I was quiet for a moment because it could have been any number of things she might have been referring to. But, um, I finally said, "What do you mean?" And she said, "This anger, where did it go?" And I didn't even realize it had lifted. Now, these negative things, like anger and depression and sorrow, they're beautiful things in a story, but they're like a poison to the filmmaker, they're a poison to the painter, they're a poison to creativity. They're like a vice grip. If you're super depressed, you can't hardly get out of bed, let alone think ideas, have that creativity flowing. So, it's money in the bank to get that beautiful consciousness growing, which is flowing creativity, the ability to catch ideas at a deeper level. Intuition grows. This field is a field of pure knowingness. You dive in there, you sort of just know how to go, you know how to solve solutions. It's like an ocean of solutions. And you can just feel this thing growing, but the ultimate thing for me is the enjoyment of the doing, the enjoyment of life grows. Huge. I love making films now more than ever before. Ideas flow more. Everybody has more fun on the set. Creativity flows. There's no - people look like friends, not like enemies. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing, and it's us. In Vedic science, this field of pure consciousness is called "Atma," the Self, the Self of us all. That level, as Dr. John Hagelin would tell you, at that level of life, we are all one. We're one. Diversity up here, unity down below. It's, it's a, you'll, it's a great thing for the filmmaker. Thank you. I would, I would like to have a glass of water. If that's possible. Okay. This is Jay, my friend and assistant. It's really good. It's not quite as good as pure consciousness, but it's really good. Hello. How are you doing? Not bad, how are you? Good. Well my name is Alex Harvey, I've been meditating for a while. I want to know if there was a moment where you realized the effect that pure consciousness had on your work. Right from the very beginning. And, um, like I said, I might have been, uh, I think I had so many anxieties and fears, and I felt those lifting, and bliss is a thing in this field, the Unified Field. Bliss, they say, is the sweetest nectar of life. Bliss is physical, emotional, mental, spiritual happiness. And you can vibrate with this bliss. And it's this happiness from within. They have a saying, "True happiness isn't out there. True happiness lies within." And I always wondered, "Where is this within?" And they don't say where it is, and then they don't even say how to get to it. This is the beauty of this technique. There's lots of forms of meditation, but with Transcendental Meditation, to me the key is the word "transcend." To dive all the way in. It's a huge realm between the surface of life and this fundamental pure consciousness, but it's there. And when you're in it, you know you're in it. It's familiar, but it's you. A right away, a happiness, but it's not like a goofball kind of happiness, it's a thick beauty, it's a thick beauty to appreciate life and living. And why suffer? Suffering starts to go. And people say you gotta have anger, you gotta have an edge, you know, to create. You gotta know about anger, you gotta have energy, you gotta have clarity to create. You gotta be able to catch ideas. You gotta be able to be strong enough to fight unbelievable pressure and stress and the whole thing in this world. That will lift because this whole thing is tied to world peace, but it's gonna be a better world, but it's still a very tough world, and this just gives you more and more and more ability to say it just looks beautiful. It's way way way, way better. And this happened right away. Thank you. You bet.

Change Begins Within - Transcendental Meditation - Lynch, McCartney, Hagelin

Over the past couple of years the foundation has taught almost 100,000 children to meditate, in 30 countries, in North and South America, in Europe and Africa and Asia, and in the Middle East. If we can get this to 1,000,000 kids, it'll be huge. I'm a meditator. My children are meditators. It's changed their lives, and I want to give this gift, that I've given my children, to all kids. It is, it's a life long gift, you know, it's something that you can, um, call on, at any time. Now it's actually coming into the main stream. We think it's a great thing. And so thank you, David, for putting it together. The proof is in. Transcendental Meditation naturally unfolds any students full potential. Now that thousands of children are already receiving it, and they are raising their self-esteem, they're improving their well-being, and they're turning around the most troubles schools. And these kids, they're 11 and 12 and 13, from the inner cities, experiencing quiet and expressing that they're less angry. They're getting so much more out of life, in a very, very difficult situation....is proof in the pudding. The David Lynch Foundation's goal to teach a million children meditation, that'll be like a million steps in the direction of world peace. One of the things that impressed me so much about TM when I finally learned it was it's simplicity. You know, no other meditation, no other practice I tried was as effective at quieting my mind and helping me to go to a very calm, centered place. We have found that through TM, over the past 13 years, our children are more focused on their work, they're more patient with the learning experience, and they're more reflective about their behavior. Our top priority should be preventing mental health problems in children and teenagers, because it doing so we prevent life-long problems. And TM can be an important tool in prevention. We know that, that meditating kids are more flexible, they show better emotional regulation, improved self control, better self-esteem... The cardiovascular disease process begins in childhood. And childhood risk factors, for example high blood pressure, obesity, and diabetes, which are epidemics in children today, track into later adulthood. And Maharishi revived an ancient technique, called Transcendental Meditation, that gives effortless transcending. That's why everybody you've heard say it's very easy to do. A ten year old child can do it. But it's supremely profound. The Transcendental Meditation program is certainly the most widely practiced, extensively researched, and broadly prescribed by doctors, of any technique in the world, to reduce stress and to promote health and optimal brain functioning.

Top Five Reasons Why Everyone Should Meditate #4

Hi. Today I'll be talking about the number four reason why everyone should practice meditation. The number four reason why everyone should practice meditation is because meditation allows us to overcome all sorts of mental sickness. Now we have to understand what we mean here by mental sickness. We're not talking about those things which lead people to enter psychiatry wards or insane asylums. We're talking about states of mind which are understood by people to be some sort of mental distress or disease. So when we understand disease in this sense we understand it as dis-ease. As not being at ease. So this could be from all sorts of states like depression or stress, anxiety. All of these things which actually nowadays people are trying to find medication as a solution. They're trying to use pills, they're trying to use sometimes therapy or trying to find all sorts of external ways of removing these mental conditions. And they never go at the root which is in the mind. So in the meditation practice we understand that the great thing about meditation is that we don't ever have to take medication for something which is purely mental. States of mind like depression, stress, anxiety, insomnia. All of these states which we tend to go to see a clinical therapist for or a clinical doctor for. We can actually remove on our own. And this is one thing that people maybe don't ever realize that they have this incredible tool which allows you to get rid things like insomnia, depression, stress, anxiety, worry, fear, phobias in really a very short time and on a very real and profound level. That actually when we practice meditation creating this clear thought it creates a sort of series of mind-states which come to be a new way of looking at the world. So instead of looking at things as stressful. Instead of looking at our situation as depressing, instead of looking at something as fearful. We simply see it for what it is. If it's something we're afraid of, when we say to ourselve eeing, seeing. Hearing, hearing. Or thinking, thinking. Or even liking, liking. Or afraid, afraid. That mind-state disappears and it doesn't then continue. It doesn't become a tendency or become a habit. We get this new habit in our mind of seeing things simply as they are. When we are depressed, we have a situation which is depressing, we simply say to ourselve hinking, thinking, disliking or stressed, or so on. We remind ourselves of the true nature of it and we don't give it the power to create this mental sickness, or mental disease, or mental upset. However you want to call it. This state of depression which can actually lead people to kill themselves. Actually if people were to practice meditation there would be no need to ever consider to try to end your life. There would be no idea that something was unpleasant, or something was bad or depressing. States like insomnia, people who suffer from insomnia. I've had many people who have cured themselves of insomnia, life-long insomnia, in a week of meditation. People who have been alcoholics, are able to cure themselves. Give up alcoholism, give up drugs, give up all sorts of addictions, all sorts of states which we would normally consider to be a sort of a mental sickness, or a mental disease which we go to see a doctor for. We can actually cure by ourselves or with the help, if not by ourselves at least with the help of a qualified meditation teacher. So this is the number four reason why everyone should practice meditation. Not just those people who are suffering from clinical depression, but those people who suffer from these general sense of disease or discomfort, which arises really for everybody. So thank you for tuning in, this is number four, and please look forward to the rest of my videos in the future. Thanks.

Moving with the Mind of Meditation -Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. Shambhala

People have been asking me about the relationship between mind and body and I am currently about to run a marathon and I'm in training. People think it's kind of unusual for a Tibetan lama to be exercising, let alone running a marathon, and what the relationship between body and mind is and running and meditation. So for myself it's not that surprising; I mean I think there is a tradition of body and mind and I think in the West sometimes the body and mind have been split up. So when people think about meditation or spirituality, they think it's very much distancing themselves from body per se. But the way I've been trained and brought up and the way I understand this topic and kind of the whole experience, is that they are actually meant to be united. When we meditate, for example, even sitting meditation, it's a whole body experience, a whole mind experience. So people said, "Are you, can you meditate while you are running?" And I said "Of course, I hope so. I've been trying it, it seems to be working okay." So you know it's a matter of just taking the principles, because basically you should be able to practice meditate anywhere. Because the way I would think about it is that you're using your mind. Once you're using your mind you're the way you meditate. So when you're running, obviously there is more focus on movement in running. And when you're running, there's a sense of purpose and focus, which is like meditation. Traditionally, you might use the breathing, you might use a visualization. And in running you have the orientation, you're going, and you also have your feet and your arms and there's a whole body experience. So like for example when I'm running, I always try to keep my center kind of in my heart. And then try to have my... I realize my movement of my being is coming, even though my legs are down there, but my center is coming from here, the movement is coming from here. And then try to keep the keep a.., my visual field, like roughly 10 feet out, so that I'm looking down slightly and keeping my eye on the path. And that’s like a breathing meditation when you're sitting, and you're focused here and then, the only difference is you're moving and you're breathing a lot quicker. But I think, you know, it is the same thing. You're dealing with pain. You're dealing with thoughts. You're dealing with all these elements. And that's how you regard it. So some people prefer maybe to use running as a way to kind of think about things and escape. I know I prefer myself, I mean you can do that, and sometimes when you first start running you have a lot of thoughts. Just like in meditation, when you first sit down you have a lot of thoughts. And then once you begin to move, you begin to balance your mind and body. So I think it's the same with any kind of sport or activity. If you're riding a horse; it's the balance. If you're skiing or if you're playing golf, whatever it may be; there's the kind of mind-body coordination. And that's inherent; because the notion of meditation is that you're synchronizing your mind with your body. You're using the present moment as your gauge, as a way of being present and of being here, being in the moment, being in the now, as they say, right present. The other day when I was practicing my interval training, I realized that, that it was very important to be completely present and as soon as you let your mind go too far into the future, like how long do I have and things like this, automatically sometimes you get to be tired. The present moment can be this very full moment. In fact, the present moment, as you're running, if you can be there, because it's the totality of what you are doing, time goes by very quickly. So I don't feel like I'm running a longtime. You get tired and I think you come in and out of it. People might talk about it as being in the zone. So I think there's that element, but I think it's the same, you know mind and body. I feel like just for general health these days, you need to do something. And I know that even, apparently the sort of new surveys say that people should try to get like 30 minutes of exercise or some sort of aerobic thing everyday. I think we live in a very kind of stagnant culture, where we're going from the car to the computer. There's just a lot of sedentariness. And one of the things that meditation has really shown me, is that breathing is really important. You know, we're meant to breathe as human beings. Running obviously exemplifies that, to one extreme. For whatever it is we can breathe and move. And the more we breathe, the more we feel alive, the more the mind feels inspired, the more it can engage. So it doesn't surprise me that people go to work, go to the gym, go do something, because it's they’re missing that element. And I think that's something that's been there for, you know, centuries, you can read old meditation texts about it. About the unity of mind and body. It's called shinjang. Shinjang means processing or training or developing. You have shinjang of mind, which is basically meditation training and processing the mind. The more you train and process the mind, the more it becomes settled, like the more useful. In fact, they say, the more processed the mind becomes the stronger it becomes, the more flexible it becomes. Same with the body. I think if you train the body, it becomes stronger and more flexible. And I think this is true even as you get older. If I have talked to people, you know, I was talking to somebody the other day, who is turning 60, and he was saying that because they thought that as you are get older, you're getting older. So maybe you should do less. So they started doing less, and they found that found they got worse. And now they’re starting to do a little more, and they’re feeling better. And it is just, you know, I think it's what people think should happen, and what's really happening. So I think the meditation tradition has known about this, it's saying even as long as you can you keep that movement. So I definitely encourage people to have something. It doesn't have to be as extreme as what I'm doing, even though I'm teaching the middle way. Good luck

Yog hanting & Movement Meditation og hilds Pose To Cobra Pose

Now moving from the twisting that we just did, we're going to come onto the floor and we're going to come back to child's pose, remember from the beginning, we come back to child's pose. This time extend your arms as far forward as they can go. Now pretend you are like a wave, like a snake and on the next inhale we're going to come right into our cobra as we're going to try to bring the thighs down to the floor and arch the lower back, roll the shoulders back just to that degree that feels good. And, as you exhale, you're going to come back to child's pose. When you exhale, let the sound of "Om" come loud out of your whole being. So, open that cobra, when we be exhale, child's pose. (Demo with Om chant) Maybe let's try together one more time, so inhale, shift forward into cobra, and open up, hold it, as we go to child's pose. (Demo with Om chant) Let's do it one more time, inhale, cobra, open up, hold it, as you exhale. (Demo with Om chant) And, now remember you start to decide the practice that is right for you. So if you need to do it for a minute, two minutes, it's fine. Just start to work with it and see which one feels more natural for you.

Running with the Mind of Meditation - Tarah Michelle

You take your time to get sensitive to what’s happening on that day. You may feel fabulous physically; you know or these things; but the mindfulness comes from paying good attention to what’s really happening. Is your mind discursive? Do you need to tighten it in a little bit? Is your mind all over? Then you can bring it more to focus. The gist of it is is to be very present, present to your breath, present to your mind. And there’s a different variety of tools that we use. The mindfulness is, in a nut shell, I think it simply means to be here now with all the circumstances. Whether it’s weather that you are dealing with, or terrain or we have things that go on in our lives. Can you use your running as a tool to enhance your connection to your own basic goodness, your own brilliance? We are serving a bigger purpose in that we’re saying, you know people sometimes will run for cancer societies or leukemia or these other things and events and I think that is awesome. You can do a marathon and you can still run your fastest and you can still run mindfully, and you can do it for something that's in addition to yourself.

Q&A on Meditation by Elizabeth Scala

Elizabeth Scala here and again this month we are sentencing on over here now so we are going to you it go with some questions than answers i posted a question on my face book Living Sublime Wellness Facebook page page and got some questions from our friends bear so much get started so the first question is what are some types of meditation and what are the differences great question numerous types of meditation so i'm not going to have time to go into the mall but just to you is starting out hearings mindfulness meditation and mindfulness matches mindful breath work common gonorrhea steric week prefered exercise to close today but mindfulness meditation is just being sitting and being mindful of your surroundings sitting and be mindful of feature sitting in being mindful of sounds sitting in being mindful of what you feel on your skin another type of men meditation instead focused meditation the idea of really clearing your mind any thoughts or feelings for any kind of distractions and focusing in on one concept holding that concept close to you and staying committed to that feeling it in your heart another type of meditation is movement meditation and that can be a walking meditation for your really focusing on each of the process he supported hygiene this and releasing from there killing each month on the body as you're walking removing meditation reduce it instantly your body with the brat an expanding contracting fluid motion with the graph and finally there's again there's many others but the last outputs on today's macho meditation and that's when you're just chanting for resource saying forward over and over and over and meditation just really focusing on the vibration of the word keeping that in your mind it leaves me to my second question which i'm glad uh... someone brought up which was wad bass scented candle for meditation biden is there're uh... any room in the house better for meditation so as far as the candle question actually i want to share it that is another type of meditation where you can light a candle and just really focus on the burning candle and watching the plane gently having i've softly open falling softly close watching the candle burning through uniform adaptation as for which scented candles that that's honestly there is no best there's some um... candles from relax ation those that might have lavender here's the candles or increase concentration those that might have likely eucalyptus or armaments were cucumber sent years candles percent small relax ation so the candle you would wanted shoes is one that you know you're not allergic to that you'd like the smell of and that nearly insist the question wider you practicing meditation why are you trying that teaching are you trying and cracked cement issue relax ation are you trying to practice meditation for concentration and then look to see which sent to the candle is going to answer this question and then of course the divers said that you enjoyed that brings me to to be grew in the meditation is a practice that you want to get into a routine uh... you want to be able to do it daily and you want to be able to do it we're not going to get into drafted so that being said whichever room in the house your most likely to not be interrupted by friends and family and loved ones if you get promoters of wind now freaking cracked the window person fresh air that's definitely helped you know if you wants it face the certain direction at a certain time of day certain people like to do that i know my morning back mike morning practice i liked so i think these needs to have the window nearby but again this is very individualized this is very much your practice were ever you're not likely to get interrupted and were ever you're likely to your comparable and relax so let's do a quick rap workbook so just six comfortable in your chair you can close your eyes if you feel comfortable doing so just bring your awareness to your breath practice together a quick body scan watertight manatee hitting her ankles briefings here pads in your shin credence to your needs they hold a lot of attention in your knees so exhale and let go you know your thighs about his intention out to your afternoon you race we hold a lot of emotions in our camps are wasted just breathing and then when you exhale but those go breathe into your belly your middle back meetings here chests exhale any tension adequate back revenge your shoulder next mail any tension out of your shoulders have intact remains here mason hughes calm needs any tension in your drawer around her eyes his exmoor let any tension just melt away must close together lead collective breath wrapped up together breathing next mail out now slowly the and swollen expanse month acton space rising just another type of medications simple body scan reading into all the space isn't places if your body annex knowing anything else u reading it out and letting it go have a healthy day

How To Teach Yoga & Meditation For Children ips for Teaching Kids Yoga

Hi, I am Sharon Tessandori the owner of Barefoot Works Yoga Studio located in Lexington, Kentucky. I'm here today on behalf of Expert Village and I will be sharing with you some yoga poses that you can do with children. Yoga is a wonderful discipline that helps children to become stronger, more flexible and build endurance. It also helps to focus the mind and foster a position self-esteem. The following exercises and poses are designed for children between the ages of 7 and 11. It's important to know that these poses should be taught in a light hearted and encouraging manner. While practicing yoga with your child, please clear the area with any sharp or breakable items. Also be sure to check in with your child about how the poses feel. Nothing that you do should be uncomfortable or especially not painful. But most importantly breathe and have some fun.

A Photo Can Change Life on Earth ! A Photo of Guru Siyag induces Automatic Yoga Meditation !

So, this is such a Science that has not yet appeared till toady And my Photo will induce ‘Dhyan’ (meditation), you people, not just in this country tell it in the World, that meditating on this person, his Photo Diseases and AIDS and Hepatitis-B will be cured off, evaded off. Then, now this world now this live telecast which is being done It’s being done on the national and international level This has gone into the Space, my Voice, now, no one can stop it And his Photo will not die, his Photo will not die

Neural Correlates of Altered Consciousnes ypnosis, Meditation, & Drug-Based Changes - Amir Raz

[The Neural Correlates of Altered Consciousnes :02[From Hypnosis and Meditation to Drug-Based Changes] [Amir Raz, M.D. April 21, 2013] We have about 25 minutes to talk about altered consciousness from my perspective, or a little bit of my perspective. So let me tell you just a little bit in [the] way of context. First of all, I'm very happy to be here in a conference that has the title "psychedelic science," for all kinds of reasons that you'll see in a few minutes. My first slide basically says that I'm a professional scientist. Professional science is a weird profession. You get paid basically to do something you would probably do for free, not paid a lot, but paid to do something that you really love, you're really passionate about, and I happen to be very passionate about consciousness. One thing that I do in order to study consciousness is to look at altered consciousness. When I was a graduate student, it was almost unheard of that a graduate student, at least, would say that they want to study consciousness. This was not centuries ago. [It] was pretty recently. The scientific community in general is pretty conservative and pretty skeptical of weird stuff. Altered consciousness is considered weird stuff today. It's slightly changing; I want to show you a little bit how it's changing and the kind of stuff that we need to do in order to make it change. Before that I want to show you that the approach that we take to altered consciousness is an interdisciplinary one. My background is in computational signs and psychology and computer science, things like that. For the past 15 years or 20 years or so, I've been in psychiatry departments and psychology departments and neurology departments. McGill, for those of you who are not familiar with Canada, it's a foreign but friendly country, just north of the United States. McGill University is sort of the Harvard of Canada, or as they say in Canada, Harvard is the McGill of the south. We have labs at McGill, and some of my studies, not all of them, but some of them are dedicated to altered consciousness and I want to show you just a few things. I'd like to start with some kind of a context. So you see, in life, it's very easy, especially when you give a 25-minute presentation, it's very easy to classify people in a caricatured way into one or two, one or the other. So, "do you take psychedelic drugs or" "do you not? Do you believe in psychedelic drugs or do you not?" "Are you spiritual or are you not? Are you rich or poor, a giver," "a taker?" and so on. A lot of times in science, you hear things like "you're not open-minded enough," "you're not open-minded," or "you're close-minded." The fact of the matter is that this kind of dichotomy, "are you on this side or are you on that side" becomes all the more acute when you talk about things where quantitative science has very little to offer or not enough to offer. And then, qualitative science, which is a form of science, a legitimate form of science, is considered by some people to be very soft. By some people it's not even considered to be science at all. As a matter of fact, this is true for social science in general. So people who are doing social science, sometimes when they come into interaction[s] with clinicians or with medical types, sometimes are being discounted or dismissed or disparaged just based on their academic grooming, which is a very strange thing to happen in an educated society, but still it happens. Now, let's start with a very basic question. I think that this question actually captures the crux of what I'm about to say here today. Let's say that you wanted to study altered consciousness, or you wanted to experience it, and I gave you a two-choice, forced-choice question. So, would you take 40 years and go into a cave and study meditation to achieve this altered experience, or would you ingest something and have it in a few seconds? Very difficult question. It's a very difficult question, but this question, actually, is very pertinent to what we're talking about, and specifically it's pertinent for young people. I'll explain why in a little bit, but in western culture, there's no question in our culture, that we're migrating towards B. There's no question about that. Yes, there's some cultures, and there's a long tradition, not a negligible one of A, and there [are] other options; I'm just making a caricature out of it to make a point. But I think that this question is essential, because western culture is very impatient. We want to lose weight for the wedding tomorrow. We want to look good. We want things to happen very quickly, and this is a way to make things work very quickly. Then there's a whole cultural and social and legal [aspect] of it in the background that we can work out. I want to tell you a word or two about science, because I am a professional scientist and I work among scientists. Scientists have a very formal way of thinking about what they do. In the slide of the nudist beach, they separate the world into into scientists and non-scientists, unfortunately. Usually, when you're talking about science, you are in a situation where people ask questions, because people like to ask questions. Some of the questions are unscientific. What can you do? "Who should I marry?" is not a very scientific question. "Do you believe that hypnosis can reduce pain," Is not a very scientific question. "How should I invest my money?" believe it or not, is not a scientific question. "Do you suppose" "that suggestion can help depression?" is also not a scientific question. The answer might be yes, but these are not scientific questions, at least not in the formal sense. That's because a real pristine scientist, a real one, doesn't use words like believe and suppose and things like that. Real scientists go by data. A lot of scientists sometimes are confused, because they confuse the lack of data for data of absence. That's a big problem in general, but it's a big problem with scientists. Often, they'll say "show me the data," but then when you try to do something to collect some data they say, "oh, that's completely unacceptable," or "we can't do that; that's not very scientific." There's a little bit of that, and that's changing with time. Today, especially in neuroscience, in brain science, we have a lot of openness to things that 20 years ago were unheard of, and I'm not talking about technology right now. I'm talking about content fields such as mindfulness, hypnosis, and other things that are very relevant to altered states of consciousness, but are still [a] ways from ingestion of hallucinogenic or psychedelic drugs; we're going to get there in just a second. So, there's some misconceptions that I think people who are dealing or interacting with scientists need to know. These misconceptions are also prevalent among scientists. I think that the first thing that I need to do is educate you a little bit about it. So the first thing is that a lot of people--for reasons that I can expound on, I can wax on this eloquently, but we don't have time--they have this mistaken idea that science is about the truth. Science is not about the truth. I just want you to understand this. Science is not about the truth; we have no monopoly on the truth. Sometimes we endorse things, "this was endorsed by scientists," or whatever. Take it with a grain of salt. The second thing is that science in general does not have any kind of monopoly on quantitative science. Quantitative science is not the only form of science. There are other forms of science including qualitative, and including something that requires subjectivity, unity, spirituality, intentional causation, and so on. So there's nothing unscientific about studying these things, nothing at all that is unscientific based on the scientific paradigm, on the scientific theory. It's very important to understand this because some people dismiss it based on the philosophy of science. They're just not well-read on the philosophy of science. So that's not true either. That's a critical point that should be a point of contention when you're dealing with scientists. Now, I want to explain what science is, in order to show you some of the results that we have about altered consciousness. Science really is a set of institutional structures and techniques, methodologies, that have evolved over time in order to improve our knowledge. Anything that you do to improve knowledge in a systematic way is science. That's why, in this sense, any systematic study, any rigorous investigation of some phenomena, fits the definition of science. That would include many of the things that have to do with consciousness and altered consciousness and so on, although many people feel uncomfortable with that for reasons that have to do more with dogma and history and narrow-mindedness than actual definitions of science. Let's start with some real science. When we are talking about altered consciousness, it's almost impossible...and I've selected a number of studies to show you some kind of a timeline progression into these things, and I decided to also focus on altered consciousness from a perspective that is probably unfamiliar to most of you. That is the perspective of altered consciousness without ingesting anything. I'll show you why that is important, actually. Here's a paper that was published in Science, probably one of the premier journals in the field, and this particular paper is about pain. This paper identifies a particular area in the brain, in the prefrontal cortex, just behind where my finger is. This particular area is called the anterior cingulate cortex, or ACC for short, has been identified by this particular group of researchers. You're not going to believe this, but they're out of Montreal, where McGill is, but they're not at McGill;1 they're at University of Montreal. That's just a fluke. It so happens1 that this particular group of researchers have shown that1 sensations of pain--actually, you can generate pain psychologically,1 and it would be as real; there's absolutely nothing physical to1 cause you pain, but you can actually create a lot of pain in people1 by suggesting it to them, and you can reduce pain by suggesting to them1 all kinds of things that have nothing to do with what's happening1 in reality, and the perception of pain would decrease.1 They actually showed a very nice correlation of the brain activation,1 what's happening inside your head, and what the physical experience is.1 Now, if you know anything about neuroscience, if you know anything about1 brain science, you would very quickly say, "Hey, what's new about that?"1 We know that we live in our brains." We live in our brains. So1 reality as we perceive it is basically what happens inside our brain.1 Yes, that's true, but there's also | an element of hallucination that is1 something that we create in our brain that has nothing to do1 with the world that is actually distinct from things like imagining,1 or things like thinking that something is happening, and so on.1 These are all, at some level... conscious experience[s]...1 these are like ripples in the ribbon of consciousness1 or in the fabric of consciousness. So here's another study [from] 1998.1 I'm sort of taking you in a timeline progression. This is a PET study,1 and this particular study, as well as the previous one, by the way,1 show you that there's a tendency in science, if you want to publish1 in a good scientific journal there's a tendency to have colorful1 brain images, probably better to have them in three dimensions.1 Brain imaging has become the ultimate toy in this game. I'm fortunate1 enough to be a member of the Montreal Neurological Institute,1 in Montreal, where we really have brain toys of the best caliber.1 It's one of the premiere institutions for brain science.1 We just about have every imaginable brain toy that you can think of.1 Any imaging technique that is out there, we have. This is an fMRI study.1 This is a PET study. There's certain advantages to doing PET studies,1 positron emission tomography, when you actually inject people1 with a radioactive tracer, radioactive ligand. ...You'll see in this1 particular study we'll talk about in just a second, again, the same1 area lights up. In this study they did something weirder,1 in the sense that they had people lie in the scanner.1 This scanner is very quiet; fMRI is loud. PET scan is very, very quiet.1 They lie there doing nothing, you get some kind of a baseline1 measurement. You hear instructions, so you have a speaker speaking1 to you, and you get particular activation.1 Then, you imagine that you hear the instructions,1 but actually there are no instructions. So there's quiet, but1 you're asked to imagine the instructions, and here you're hallucinating1 the instructions, but how are you hallucinating this? Somebody induces1 you with a ritual. Somebody induces you into hypnosis, whatever1 that means, and with a hypnotic hallucination, you're basically1 under the impression that you're hearing the sound, or the voice1 that you heard before. But there's actually no voice at all.1 And they showed...again, going back before some of the people1 in this hall were born, that this is actually very similar, these two1 activations at the brain level are very, very similar. Again, shows you1 that when you're imagining something, or when you're hallucinating1 something, it's quite different experiences. Not only that,1 but we're getting the same kind of convergence onto brain areas1 that are well-documented in the literature,1 have something to do with altered consciousness, with awareness,1 and so on. Not only that, but in addition to the brain imaging,1 you can actually do all kinds of qualitative measures, very important,1 that would supplement those brain imaging measures.1 You can actually show a very nice correlation; these are huge1 correlations in scientific terms. The brain activation and what1 the person is experiencing are actually veridical; this is the truth.1 They're not just doing this as a part of role enactment. This is not just1 social compliance. They're not doing it in order to be nice to you.1 They're doing it because this is truly what they're feeling.1 There's a problem when you do, for example, the 1997 study1 that I showed you, there's a problem when you do pain studies,1 because I have no access to your pain. So if you tell me,1 "oh, I'm in a lot of pain. On a scale of 1 to 10 it's 9,"1 I have no way as a scientist to access your pain,1 and...I have no biological marker. That's why a lot of people are1 a little bit disenchanted, or were disenchanted with pain.1 Now pain is sort of swinging back full-stream with the leaders1 in pain research beginning to show that there's sort of semi-objective1 ways to look at pain, so that when you tell me that you have1 a particular pain, I can actually verify that with all kinds of1 biological indices. Science today is extremely...it's almost all about1 objective measurements, and less so about subjective [ones].1 Of course, subjective measurements are very important, but they always...1 in order for subjective measurements to be valid or to be listened to1 carefully, we need to have some kind of an objective measure.1 That's why brain imaging is such a huge revolution in the field of1 consciousness in general and psychology and human behavior.1 Here's another study just 2 years later. This is a Harvard scientist,1 Kosslyn, with a long list of researchers. The last one1 actually from here, from Harvard, David [Spiegelin].1 This is a very simple study. They show people these mondrians,1 either in color or in black and white, and they see them either1 the way they are or sometimes with a suggestion to hallucinate them as1 either in color or in black and white, that goes against the thing.1 So sometimes they'll show this to people and tell them1 "this is actually in black and white." And sometimes they'll show this1 to people and tell them, "this is actually in color."1 These are regular healthy people, who are just highly suggestible,1 highly hypnotizable, whatever that means. They were able to show1 with a bunch of PET scans that the areas that are usually dedicated to1 color vision light up even when you show them black and white figures,1 and the areas that are dedicated to black and white vision1 actually light up when you're actually showing them color vision.1 If I turn it around, you understand what I meant. It's not what I said;1 it's what I meant. So, the same thing happens here with,1 a little bit later, a group of scientists from England showing that1 you can create paralysis, you can convince people that they're paralyzed,1 although they're not paralyzed; there's nothing to paralyze. But1 you can convince them that they're paralyzed, and as a result1 of telling them that they're paralyzed, they actually act like they1 can't move their leg or hand, and you can actually see the area that1 lights up in the brain in response to these suggestions.1 There's absolutely no pharmacological agents present.1 There's absolutely nothing other than words that cross the barrier.1 Again, in the field of pain, people have demonstrated more recently1 that it's possible to show pain in a context of a hallucination.1 You can show a particular form of pain that is induced by heat that1 actually matches this particular description, and you can ask people1 to imagine these things and you can see again, from1 a brain activation standpoint, this is an fMRI study, you can see that1 these two pictures, they look alike. You don't need to be a1 brain scientist. So whether you get "real" pain or whether you are1 "hallucinating" this pain, your brain fries in a similar fashion.1 So that's very interesting, because for people who are in these1 two conditions, the experience is real. It's veridical, despite...1 the fact that there's no physical reality to be congruent with it,1 in this case, only in this case. So it's quite clear that we are1 people who live in our brains. It's quite clear that this is happening,1 it's also clear that studies like these, like these two that I'm1 superimposing one next to the other, are extremely helpful to show this.1 Now, people have taken this pain analogy into slightly more1 emotional domains. They've identified various aspects of pain. Sometimes1 it's emotional pain; sometimes the pain has to do with seeing something1 that is painful in a picture and so on.1 They show that... these are very, very nice correlations between1 specific areas such as the anterior cingulate cortex1 that I mentioned to you. Then there's some rostral areas to it, there's1 some caudal areas to it. So it's the front or the back,1 it doesn't really matter. This is all the geography of the brain,1 or the neuroanatomy of the brain. But the fact of the matter is1 that we are now getting to the point where we understand fully well1 that you can create these changes in a big way.1 A study that I conducted a few years ago...again, I'm just going in1 some kind of a thematic timeline here, showed that I can take1 this area that has to do with altered consciousness, among other things.1 It has to do with cognitive control, it has to do with monitoring, it1 has to do with all kinds of higher cognitive functions that we're1 not going to get into, but definitely, it's involved in the orchestration1 of altered consciousness. We've demonstrated that it's possible1 to turn it off, actually, by giving people a particular suggestion,1 and as a result of that, their experience changes markedly.1 I want you to think for a second, just for the sake of a paradigm.1 Think of a person who is lifting his hand, let's say...performing1 a particular movement, and then think of the same person performing1 the exact same motion under a different instruction. For example,1 let's say that this person is under some hypnotic spell1 or hypnotic induction, and we tell them, "You're not actually lifting"1 "your arm; it's a helium balloon that is connected to your hand,"1 "that is lifting your arm." So he is basically performing the exact same1 motion, but now, it's the helium balloon as far as he's concerned1 that is performing the motion, not him.1 We have today studies that look at these things very carefully,1 so that from an observer's standpoint, when you're looking1 at the performance of this person,1 they're performing exactly the same thing. You cannot see,1 from the outside, a difference in the output of the behavior.2 But in terms of what's happening in the brain, it's2 a world of a difference, because in the first case, they were2 raising their arm out of their own volition,2 and this was happening to them because they wanted this to happen,2 and in the second case, this was happening to them. Of course, you know2 and I know that this is not the case, because...there was2 no helium balloon. I was there; I checked. There was no helium balloon.2 But they were under the impression that there was a helium balloon2 and as a result they performed exactly the same motion.2 You can put sensors on the arm and you can use accelerometers and2 all these things in order to see that the motion is exactly the same.2 But you can also image what's happening inside the brain, and what's2 happening inside the brain is a world of a difference between these2 two conditions. So it's quite clear that in terms of agency,2 whether you are the author, whether you are doing something2 or something is happening to you, whether you are the choreographer or2 something is being choreographed for you, these things actually2 change our experience in a big way, although2 maybe from the outside the behavior looks the same. So that's2 another reason that there's a trend, there's a shift toward focusing2 on what's happening inside the brain objectively.2 We do have the technology to do this, and2 what we're missing right now is paradigms that are judiciously ethical,2 that the scientific community can decide and embrace and say,2 "this is good. I like this. This is ethical; it's going to fly"2 "by the ethics committee, it's going to be embraced not just by"2 "the ethics committee; by the public."2 "People are going to say, "this is good. This is ethical. I can see how"2 "I can learn from this," and it's going to be scientifically sound2 in the sense that a lot of scientists are going to agree2 we have a lot to learn from this. This is really important stuff2 that we're going to learn from. Now, just because I don't2 have much time, I'm going to skip these slides. So the first thing that2 you have to understand, and that people have to understand, is that2 we have a lot of holes in our scientific toilet paper. It's really2 important to understand this, especially when it comes to consciousness.2 Consciousness is a young field, and a lot of people have been2 dealing with consciousness from... schools of theology...from2 perspectives of martial arts, from the perspective of2 hunters and gatherers, from the perspective of survival, and so on.2 Science comes in and we have this2 trajectory that is very psychological science, cognitive science,2 neuroscience-stamped. Right now, brain science is in vogue.2 Believe it or not, it is. That's why people are sort of interested,2 they're beginning to get interested in these lacunae because2 people are also beginning to understand from other fields that,2 for example, the universe is 96% dark matter and dark energy,2 and we can't even observe it. There's a certain sense of humility2 and humbleness that comes with that, because suddenly...you2 study physics and they tell you "there's an electron...it rotates"2 "in a particular way," and then suddenly you learn that 96% of2 the universe is actually...does not conform with that model. We don't know.2 When we say dark matter, and when we say dark energy,2 as a scientist, I mean it in the epistemological sense. I don't know.2 It's dark because I don't know. It's in the dark. So you see,2 particularly as scientists, it's very important to understand the limits2 of your own knowledge, of your own technology and so on, and also2 to see the potential of what you can do.2 I think that very few scientists would dispute or would argue2 that today, consciousness studies, and studying2 altered consciousness, is an important field.2 Very few people would argue against that.2 I think that the question would be how to study it, and what is2 considered to be a judicious approach and a good sound2 scientific paradigm. And I think that is beginning to2 happen because on the one hand, we have this entire array of brain toys2 that is at our disposal in a big way, and prices are dropping.2 They're getting more and more affordable. Before...you needed to be2 extremely wealthy in order to do these studies. Today, you really don't.2 You can do studies not on a shoestring budget, but on much smaller2 budgets, and, with the right kind of question, you can actually ask2 some very meaningful things that could have clinical relevance,2 or could actually have theoretical relevance for scientists.2 I'll give you an example, and you'll give me the one-minute or2 two-minutes heads-up. So, think about it this way.2 Let's say you have strep throat.2 This is a favorite example of mine. I assume many people here2 had strep throat at some point in their lives. Very common thing.2 Modern medicine has the right answer for you. If you're not2 allergic to penicillin, they do a quick swab and they send it to the lab,2 they identify the bacteria. They give you penicillin.2 You don't need to come back. Ten days later, you're going to be fine.2 If you take your penicillin, you're going to be fine.2 But this kind of medicine almost doesn't exist out of strep throat.2 It's only with strep throat that we can do that. With other things2 in life, you have to go back, and there's a lot of trial and error2 with the drugs, and we're not sure what's happening,2 and it's not so deterministic. We are not so fortunate2 to have this kind of medicine.2 So what we're beginning to understand is that2 there's a lot of factors. A lot of factors actually play on2 medicine and on biology that are non-drug. Sometimes2 the interaction of drug and non-drug factors is a lot more potent2 than just drug factors or just non-drug factors.2 That interaction of drug and non-drug is something that has2 come to the forefront of the scientific...thinking only recently.2 Until recently, you couldn't even talk to scientists,2 or let's say clinical, clinicians, practitioners, and talk about2 non-drug factors. Everything was about biologically driven things.2 Today, people are beginning to talk about transcultural psychiatry.2 People are beginning to understand the importance of the influence2 of culture, the influence of upbringing and things of that nature2 in the effect of specific drugs. We're beginning to understand,2 for example, how people who are highly hypnotizable respond to2 suggestions differently from people who are not2 highly hypnotizable and what is the genetic makeup of these people2 and so on. So in addition to the neuroimaging revolution,2 we also had the genomic revolution. We can actually identify2 people with specific genetic polymorphisms who are likely2 to be more susceptible to particular manipulations that are either2 psychological or drug, by looking at genetic polymorphism.2 It's receptors that are going to respond more or less2 based on your genetic makeup.2 If you take this information, you put it together, you can2 actually get a preliminary blueprint to a conscious experience.2 The conscious experience that a lot of people focus on is the2 conscious experience of pain, because it's very clinically relevant.2 But there's a lot of relevance to altered consciousness,2 and consciousness studies that go beyond pain.2 In summary, what I want to say, basically, and I wrote this down2 so I don't get it wrong...I wrote something like thi ur understanding2 of altered consciousness, let alone common consciousness,2 is full of holes, as you can see here. One way to bridge and fill2 some of these lacunae should come from experiments.2 These experiments should, in my opinion, would include2 psychedelic substances. The trick, however, is to design2 an experimental approach that is scientifically sound on the one hand2 and judiciously ethical on the other hand.2 I believe that such a marriage is possible. Moreover, scientific2 understanding of altered states will likely shed light on practices2 largely unique to our species. I'm talking about2 things like spirituality, phenomenology, and their derivatives.2 The last thing that I want to say about neuroimaging2 and about consciousness studies before we open the floor for questions2 is that I detect, sometimes, some kind of a silo phenomenon2 between hardcore scientists and people who are non-scientists2 who are trying to convince scientists that something is interesting.2 Remember, and this is something that I can tell you from2 personal experience, remember that scientists, as dogmatic and2 as anal as they might be, are people. They're people.2 There's something in science that is called the vividness effect.2 You can talk about something all you want, but once you experience it,2 you change your position on something because2 you've experienced it. It becomes personal...now it's personal.2 Before, it was just a theoretical idea... so there's something to2 be said about the vividness effect, and the fact that most people2 who have opinions, usually a particular kind of opinion about2 certain things, have never experienced, or know very little about2 these things. If you do a survey, for example, among scientists, and2 particularly scientists who are in these kind of fields,2 you will discover that in addition to a skeptical conservative kind of2 stance that they have from being a professional scientist,2 where you need to have that in order to practice that profession,2 sometimes you can be skeptical and be conservative and do cutting-edge,2 adventurous, innovative research that is trail-blazing and2 would appeal to a large audience because you have experienced2 something that basically gives you the fuel or gives you2 the impetus to actually go and do that. Before, you just...had no idea2 of what that was like. So that's a very important realization2 that I think a lot of people are missing on when there's3 conversation in these realms. I'd like to close it here, because Kelly3 is signalling to me nervously that we're running out of time,3 and I'm going to be here for a few minutes, or as long as it takes,3 if you need more time to ask me questions3 after the formal question-and-answer period. Thank you very much.3 [applause]3 [moderato We have time for just a couple questions.3 uan Acosta. You answered my question these last two minutes.3 That is, I wanted your view on...3 I do consciousness studies using EEG. I'm a neuroscientist. If the3 scientists should have these experiences that they are studying,3 in the lab or in other settings... I think it's important that they3 have these experiences, at least that they know the terrain3 that they're getting into. What's your view?31:0

Running With the Mind of Meditation - Interview #1

For me, athletics has always been something that is very driven. I was a serious athlete most of my life and just got extremely burnt out and stopped doing any of it, just because I had that mind set; and running for best is high achievement, low satisfaction and nothing was ever enough. And meditation has been critical in shifting that perspective; and this program really does that as well, and connects you with the joy of it. Just the simplicity of it, there's something so pure in running. I just think that the connection, the embodied aspect of meditation, is so important, because it tends to get neglected or overlooked and think that it’s sort of a head practice, when really the body is the link; it’s the essential component to tie everything together. And just having that connection, and it’s something that’s really simple and pure. And I think that you know I get more out of my meditation when I run; and when I’m embracing the body aspect of it; and the same thing with running, it’s just, it’s all inseparable; I think is the main thing.

Top Five Reasons Why Everyone Should Meditate #5

Hi. Today I'll be talking about the top five reasons why everyone should practice meditation. And this is an accompaniment to my videos on how to meditate. Sort of as an encouragement for people who are unsure as to whether meditation is really of use to them. So, counting down, today I'll be giving the number five reason why everyone should practice meditation. And the number five reason why everyone should practice meditation is that meditation purifies the mind. Now, many people might not understand how this is a useful thing or what it means to have a pure mind. But actually, we understand in the meditative tradition that this is the real reason why we're practicing meditation. Because when the mind is purified it brings all the other benefits. So what does it mean to have a purified mind? Well, we understand that our minds are full of many different conflicting mind-states. Some of them bring us happiness, and some of them bring us suffering. And the ones that we call impure are the ones that bring us suffering. They either cause us to do bad deeds towards other people or do things that hurt ourselves. We understand these to be positive emotions which are unwholesome or things which lead to suffering. The positive emotions are emotions like greed, wanting. So we call them positive but actually they lead to addiction. And once we're addicted, then it gives rise to a great deal of suffering. So the meditation helps us to overcome positive emotions which are in the end actually negative. Like positive reactions to things. And it also helps us to overcome negative reactions such as anger, disliking, all sorts of hatred. Things which lead us to real and true mental suffering. It also leads us to overcome sort of neutral emotions where we don't judge something as good or bad, but we come to associate with it. We say that it's me or it's mine. We hold on to things as our possessions. We hold on to ideas and concepts, views, conceit. All sorts of ideas which lead us to hold ourselves higher than others, or put ourselves down, having low self-esteem and so on. These we would say are three general characteristics of unwholesome mind-states or things which we could call impure. Impurities in the mind. Now meditation helps us to overcome these at the moment when we're practicing, when we're making a clear thought. Because these things arise in relation to an experience. So when we see something we like it or we don't like it. Or maybe we create some kind of idea of self-righteousness, or self-esteem, or so on. Either positive or negative. At the moment when we're meditating, when we see something, we simply remind ourselves that it's seeing. That this is an experience of seeing. When we feel pain, we remind ourselves that this is pain. We simply create the clear thought as pain. And when we do this our minds are unable to go the next step as liking or disliking. Our minds have fixed on the ultimate reality of the experience as simply what it is. So it's not good, it's not bad, it's simply what it is. This is what it means to create a clear thought, and this is the first benefit, is that it purifies the mind. It helps us to get rid of anger. It helps us to get rid of addiction. And it helps us to get rid of all sorts of conceit and views and all sorts of unpleasant, unskillful, unwholesome mind-states. So that's the first reason why everyone should practice meditation. I'd like to thank you for joining me and please look forward to the rest of my videos in the future.

Transcendental Meditation in Tennis

There are 16 state champions, 4 for the team, 7 for singles, 5 for doubles, we’ve played in the state championship match in singles, doubles or team tennis a total of 24 times in the 22 years that we’ve been there. There’s been 66 possible events during those 22 years that were for state champions so that’s a good rate of progressing to the final match. I’ve taught in public schools, I’ve taught in parochial schools and I’ve taught in this private school, Maharishi school, what I notice is the alertness for what I put forth as a teacher, whether it’s in my classroom in world history or on the tennis court, the alertness and receptivity and the wakeful kind of preparedness for what I have to say and what I have to give is much higher when the players or the students in my classroom have gotten rid of their fatigue and strain before coming and so without any question at all, 'cause I’ve taught fifteen thousand people how to play tennis for example, and by now it's clear to me that the ability to take in what I have and use it for growth is much higher when the players, the young players, have meditated and they've gotten rid of fatigue and tension when they’ve gotten rid of the tiredness that clouds their perception it makes a huge difference on what they can retain. Well you know the prevailing paradigm in sports generally, from a coaching stamp is often no pain no gain, and the notion behind that I think is disputed by the actual findings that people tend to have repetitive overuse injuries, they tend to burn out, they tend to overextend themselves and end up less productive as players. The approach we take is a different paradigm and it's, we could say that it's train without strain, you know invest in rest the invest in rest to gain success in sports and it means in tennis terms when I take a look at an hour of tennis, an hour long tennis match it's the actual fact that forty five minutes of that hour are not playing tennis, fifteen minutes is actually hitting tennis balls and chasing them, getting them back-and-forth so in the forty five minutes when we are not playing tennis time between points, time between games, time on change overs, time between sets, the person who is able to recharge his physiology, to replenish you know what's needed physically speaking and also who can recover emotionally and mentally from the challenge whether it’s the over exhilaration of having hit the greatest shot in his life or the disappointment of having lost a close game or close set the person who can recover emotionally is going to stand the best chance then physically and emotionally to play better when they're actually hitting the ball in those fifteen minutes out of the hour of a tennis match. So my emphasis then is on training to use those gaps, to gain mastery of the gaps, to take advantage of the opportunity to rest to return the physiology to a steady-state, to do so on the basis, to play then on the basis of balance and not on the basis of being so overly pumped up that fuses their short. I like to say that if you're going to play in the zone it helps to live there first, helps to live in the zone first to play in the zone and having a physiology that's balanced that's does not have fatigue and strain dominating the day, that doesn't need red bull to get through the you know that the test that you have to take it doesn't need any kind of artificial emotional over stimulation to get ready to play but is just geared for athletics through gradual and balanced training is going to a find the best chance for success out on the court. Our emphasis is actually always on the process of improvement and not on the outcome. You know there are a lot of trophies in our trophy case, a lot of banners hanging from the walls, but they've been a secondary emphasis, our primary emphasis is on simply the process of improvement, my notion is if we commit ourselves to continuous improvement, the outcomes, the trophies, the tournament victories will take care of themselves and so far they have. You have to be able to play all day so it's an aerobic sport you have to have hand-eye coordination but all of those things being present will not guarantee a person plays good tennis. I think having an even keel, having the ability to recover from disappointment, having the wherewithal to respond in a balanced manner to success actually form a larger component of who’ll make, who will be a good tennis player and who won’t. That's why I think the off court training of getting rid of stress and the taking advantage of the times when we're not actually hitting the ball during a match give a leg up to the player who can regain balance and maintain it during a match, so I would work on the life skills and on the overall physiological foundation for an emotional even keel first to make a champion and along with that of course I have to have somebody who can run and who can hit.

What is Transcendental Meditation?

Transcendental Meditation is a simple and simple means just that, simple – not complicated - simple, natural technique. Natural means there is no suggestion, there is no manipulation. There is no pretending, it's just a human being natural technique. It's practiced for twenty minutes twice a day sitting comfortably in a chair. During that twenty minutes what happens is the active thinking mind, your everyday active thinking mind, has an opportunity to settle down and experience quieter levels of thought and quieter levels of thought, and then experience the deepest most settled level of the mind, we call it pure consciousness or transcendental consciousness or the source of thought, or in physics they call it the unified field. And as the mind settles down to experience this, the body gains a very profound state of rest. And that deep state of rest eliminates deeply rooted stresses, and that experience of pure consciousness, the source of thought within, wakes up the whole brain, enlivens the whole brain. So after our twenty minute period of TM when we return back into activity, we have more energy more creativity, more intelligence. We are more ourselves. People practice Transcendental Meditation not as an end in itself but as a preparation for daily life.

Transcendental Meditation in Baseball

I think the most important thing in baseball is to go up there and being able to concentrate every single at bat. I know before I started TM that I might be able to concentrate one or two times at the plate and I’d get one or two hits, and I’d say, oh well, I got my two hits. But now I have a tendency I concentrate almost every single time up there and I can really feel the concentration more since I’ve been TMing. Because like I said I don’t have any other worries on my mind; everything, I don’t know, everything is smooth and easy and it comes really naturally to me now. To play the game I think you have to be relaxed and I think through TM it’s really relaxed me and I can out there and, as I said before, I don’t have a care in the world. Whereas before I’d be thinking about I’ve got a bill to pay at home and what am I going to do and I’m trying to catch a ground ball, or trying to baseball. It’s hard enough trying to play the game when your mind is carefree, but I think TM has really helped me in that aspect. I felt that last year I was very strong at the end of the year and I feel that Transcendental Meditation had a lot to do with this. I didn’t let my emotions get carried away on the field. If I have a bad night I can go home and TM and completely forget about the previous day’s action and start all over the next day and I think that really has had a great effect on me. One question that often comes up i oes this mean that you are less aggressive? People say that if you are real relaxed and you are a baseball player then you are not aggressive. I feel that TM has made me more aggressive but I’m doing it in a more relaxed manner. When things get tight in situations with the bases loaded and all the infielders, you know, you don't want the ball hit to you because you might make an error, but I feel that I want the ball hit to me. I feel that I’m so confident that I can catch the ball and so relaxed that if the ball is hit to me then I’m going to make the play. I think through TM it has made me a more relaxed person and I’m really at ease out there. To me TM just makes the day unbelievably super. I wake up some mornings really feeling bad and I TM for 20 minutes and I get a whole new side of the picture. I like Transcendental Meditation because it’s brought me a little bit of something that you call maybe inner peace, restfulness, maybe a little bit more awareness about who I am or what I do. And it’s also brought me a lot more perspective about the way things are. I think it’s something that is physiologically good for you. It’s something that can be very helpful to anyone who lives any kind of pressured life at all. Any type of stressful situations that arise I think are much more easily coped with through Transcendental Meditation. In baseball you can kind of go through, play your games; you can do well and you can let your whole life be surrounded about the winning or losing of ballgames and a lot of the time you can lose sight of how important it is to be at home with your family and how important it is to follow through on your love for your family and I think that in meditation I’ve been able to enjoy my relationship with my family so much more. Because my thoughts are so much clearer on how I really feel about them. Maybe they were cloudier before but I feel now that through meditation I can express my thoughts about my family, about my wife, about my child and about our life together. After TMing because of the clearness that I would have in my own mind about what I wanted to do when I went out on the field, it would make me more positive in my approach to pitching and being more positive made me more aggressive and being more aggressive, I think, has made me a better pitcher. I think I’ve been able to focus much better. By that I mean you know there’s a ball that a pitcher throws and the sooner you pick up that ball as it’s released from his hand and identify the spin on that ball which will determine if it’s a straight ball a fast ball a slider or a curve, the better opportunity you are going to have to hit it. Well, I think that through the mental clarity that exists through Transcendental Meditation I’ve been able to focus on that much quicker and maintain that focus. I’ve been meditating regularly and I know it’s been helping me in that way. I’ve found myself maybe not as anxious and maybe not as pressure filled as maybe I used to be and I think I’ve performed a little better in some of the situations especially at bat. I think of catching in the same way; instead of letting the pressure of maybe a ninth inning rally where we are sitting on a one run lead and the people are all excited and the stands are full of emotion. I think that sometimes instead of letting that pressure get to you, your mind, because of the relaxation and removal of stress that Transcendental Meditation has helped relieve me of, I think I found myself concentrating on the ballgame right here and now and this situation rather than worrying about the whole pressure of the situation that the ballgame brings out. I like TM because it helps me relax. It now helps me to do things that I have never done before on a massive level to do so many various types of things. I like TM because I’m refreshed where before I wasn’t, especially in the late evenings. A lot of times I would wake up in the morning I had nothing to look forward to but a tired body to carry me through a strenuous day. But now like I’ve told so many of my friends I can’t tell them what is good for them, nor can I tell anyone else. But I think if anyone is interested in keeping their heads screwed on properly, being able to maintain sanity, the type of person that has a lot to do with a lot of things and wants to able to enjoy and unwind and relax, then I think it’s worth whatever to get into it just to check it out. If nothing else to find Transcendental Meditation representatives throughout the country and throw any and every question at them as I did. I’m a very sceptical person and I’m sure you realise some of the questions that I asked him and they were the type of answers that I was looking for. I was assured it was what I wanted. I have nothing to say but plusses for it. If there were some minuses or things that I didn’t appreciate or felt that I was misled, then I would have to be honest no matter who I’m dealing with and tell the viewers whatever I’m involved in. It’s good for me and it has been good for me. If another guy says do you like it and I say yes. He says why,I say it gives me more energy and helps me think more clearly about a lot of things. In this respect things are good. I don’t think that there’s a day now that I don’t wake up in the morning looking forward to TMing to get the day started. It might be the key to everything. We need something to bring this country back together, for people to look at each other and say hello and really mean it. To shake a hand and really appreciate the handshake. To get into each other; a lot of people want to talk but no one wants to listen. By having your head on tight and it’s fairly relaxed, you find time that you want to listen to what people say. I like Transcendental Meditation because it’s made me the person that I’ve dreamed that I want to be but I could never live up to it and I’d like to be a very good person off the field as well as on the field, and I think that through Transcendental Meditation that I will accomplish it.

How To Meditation Video editation Ritual Part 2 + Share Your Meditation Story...

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What is meditation?

What is Meditation? Meditation is a tool to help to be able to use your mind as well as you could possibly use it. The reason it works like that is that you're using time when you meditate. You're using your mind on your mind. Using the mind to pay subtle attention to experience, breath and body that helps you to concentrate. Apply your attention to things that you need to do. Doing it with patience and persistence; tendency to drift off to other things is reduced. You're mind becomes calm, and settled and do what ever it wants. What's really important is it helps you develop that skill used at work, dealing with people and other stuff.

Scienc r Brewer on...Science and Meditation (part 2)

What have I found in our research? Um...we've been doing a bit of work at Yale now that's been really rewarding in the sense, we started doing some clinical trials with people with addictions and we found that it was helpful for alcohol, for cocaine and even helped people quit smoking. It did as well as the best, even better, than the best treatments out there. We also found that the more people practiced the better they did, so you know your mom was right, "do your homework" [laughs] um... but even more recently we have gone back and said "okay this seems to work clinically, well let's look and see what's going on in the brain", so with the help of some experienced meditator volunteers we actually had people meditate in our fMRI scanner, you know where we can study their brain activity while they were meditating and found some really remarkable things that we're very excited about. There's this part of your, there's this network that seems to fire all the time - we called it the 'Default mode network' because that's what we default to. This happens about fifty percent of the day's work thinking about this or that, regretting things we did and worrying about things we haven't done and that's the Default mode network firing. Well what we found was with experienced meditators when they are meditating this default mode got dampened - it quietened down and was less active. Remarkably it was less active during three different types of meditations. So whether they were paying attention to an object like the bread or paying attention to whatever was coming into their awareness or even doing a practice we call 'love and kindness' where they intentionally wish well to others, that this this area got the activated. Better than that it seems that even when they're meditating this network of regions, which is typically just firing kind of on its own, started to get linked with other networks that haven't been shown to be linked before. So other networks that they're involved in such as self-monitoring, cognitive control and so this was happening during meditation and it was happening at baseline when w'ren't telling them to do anything in particular. So they may be monitoring for self related stuff for mind wandering all the time and then whenever they notice that their wind is wondering they say "Hey" and get back to the present moment. So it's been a very fun ride. Has Meditation been shown to help us physically? Uh... well certainly there's a big connection between the brain and body, so when there's less stress it's been shown to help with a number of physiological things, whether it's blood pressure, demian system. In Mindfulness itself actually there was a study done by Richard Davidson's Group in Wisconsin in the US where they taught people mindfulness and actually show that they can boost their immune system just through practicing Mindfulness.

LightBody Activation Webcast 4 of ight Body Elixir - Golden Lotus Brain Meditation

Light Body Activation Webcast 4 of ight Body Elixir ? Golden Lotus http www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVPQyP3KoW4&list=UU2PntFK06SGTHWsSKRQIGTg&index=10 Dr. Pilla Now I am going to give you an experience. Just close your eyes. Put your attention on the brain. I?m going to quickly go through a technique which really takes hours to practice, but I am going to give to you in a few minutes so that you can do it later on, at your leisure at home. This is a Ramalingam technique. He sees the astral brain as a golden lotus. [Tamil chant]. This golden lotus is oozing out a nectar, a fresh nectar. So, when I do the technique Ramalingam will come and bless everyone, because he is so dedicated to the process. And he is still there in the light body. [Tamil chant]. There is a nectar oozing out of the golden lotus, which is the brain. Just imagine the brain as a golden lotus and then there is honey, or nectar, oozing out. [Tamil chant]. There is now the water that comes out. [Tamil chant]. There is a Moon, which is the right brain, and it secretes another nectar into it. All are falling into the third ventricle, which is the middle of the brain, just below the thalamus. The pituitary is secreting a milk-like substance. [Tamil chant]. There are different parts of the brain, there are five different parts of the brain, which are in the cortex area--they all secrete. Now they all combine and become the elixir and that elixir stops death?and turns the body into light. Visualize the body into light. That elixir is dripping inside and sometimes, you can even feel the taste of the elixir on your tongue. This really happens?it?s not just an imagination. And the whole body becomes alive. You are revitalized. The elixir is dispersed all over the body and turns the cells into light. Arut Perum Jyothi Arut Perum Jyothi Tanni Perum Karunai Arut Perum Jyothi God has infinite compassion. It?s not his intention to punish us?it?s our own intention, ignorance that punishes us. He is pure light. You are pure light?that?s the reality. See your body as light. Om Shanti Shanti Shanti Shanti Shanti Shanti Shanti Shanti Shanti Keep your eyes closed. Relax. Slowly, slowly come back to yourself and open your eyes. Jai Radh Thank you, Dr. Pillai, for that profound experience. Now we are going to take some questions from our chat audience--Google audience?listening. This is from Jennifer Sanata Dr. Pillai, can you speak to an experience of light entering the body through the crown of the head and passing through the body.? Dr. Pilla Yeah. There is the crown chakra, which is at the top of the brain and the light1 has to come through that chakra into the third ventricle. But at the same time, you?ll have1 to have all your life energy from the lowest chakra, also, to go up and meet the light1 in the third eye. And when that happens, there will be the union of the individual soul with1 the universal soul. All your life energy is within the lowest chakra, where it?s in the1 form of your reproductive juices?like the semen and the ovum. They have a tremendous1 amount of power because they can create life. The semen and the ovum can create life. But1 we waste that life energy. It will be transformed through the meditation process, the meditative1 process?which I will be talking about throughout the Light Body Program. I will spend a couple1 of months on that. And then, take that energy to the third ventricle and then the light1 will descend into the third ventricle?that will be a union of that. And once the union1 happens, then the whole body?the third eye opens?the whole body will turn into light.1 Jai Radh Thank you for that explanation. And I know that you are going to talk later1 about the different modules of your program. And I understand that crown chakra breathing1 is one of those. And we?ll go into some more details then.1 The next question we have i Once we obtain the light body, will we leave the Earth and1 come back whenever we wish??1 Dr. Pilla Once you have the light body, then you do whatever you want to do. So, I1 came back because I could not give the light body to so many people. Then, if you are in1 the light body, then you are limited in your interaction with people. So you need to have1 a flesh and blood body so we can meet and talk to people and present it. And that?s1 why I chose to come back and I came back. So you can do, you can choose not to come1 back. And then live there as a light body, and then help people from another way. But1 then, I chose that this is the best way I could do it. So, you can. So, I came. So,1 you can do whatever you want to do. We have infinite amount of freedom.1 Jai Radh We have the next question--John Franci What is the definition of enlightenment1 and is that the light body??1 Dr. Pilla Well, there are?I think I can best answer your question through the example1 of Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo has the largest ashram in the world. A whole village is Auroville.1 It is his ashram. He was dedicated to the light body. For 40 years of his life he came1 out of his room only three times in year?that?s all?for a few minutes and then gave darshan1 and came back. But what happened? He was only psychologically enlightened?he admitted it?but1 the body was not enlightened. When the body was not enlightened, he was growing older1 and older and older. And he even became blind and he lived a long life?in his 80?s he1 became blind. And he was still talking about the light body, but he confessed that he did1 not succeed. It?s because there are two kinds of enlightenment. There is enlightenment at1 the level of the mind?you?ll be liberated from the thought process. And even there are1 many, many layers of enlightenment, when it?s psychological enlightenment. You will have1 thoughts and be still enlightened because thoughts don?t bother you and that?s one1 level of enlightenment. There is another level of enlightenment where thoughts will not be1 there and you have to make really an effort just like in the case of Ramana Maharishi--and1 really, tremendously worked hard, hard to get a thought into his mind. OK, that?s another1 level of enlightenment. So, there is psychological enlightenment when the brain gets enlightened.1 There is also enlightenment of the body, the mind and the soul. That?s what I represent.1 You have to have enlightenment of all the levels. You cannot have just an enlightened1 body and the mind remains ignorant. So, it has to be all the three together. That?s1 total enlightenment. But some people settle for ?The body is inessential and it is going1 to die, so let me die.? And those people have really suffered from cancer and then1 say that, but still the cancer pain was real. And in the case of Ramana Maharishi--the doctor1 who attended him asked hi So, what?s the difference? I am dying and I am unenlightened1 and you are also dying. But I?m your doctor and I?m treating you and you are praying1 in pain. So, what?s the difference? I?m getting confused here.? So, I don?t subscribe1 to that model. OK, the best model is?enlightenment is for the body, the mind and the soul. Next.1 Jai Radh Thank you so much. Those are all the questions that we are going to take1 for now. We are going to take some more later. So, please stay tuned and continue to send1 them?these are all the questions that we can get to right now. Next, we are going to1 invite our panel of doctors. And Dr. Pillai, you can take a break now, if you?d like while1 we begin speaking with Dr. Lionel Bissoon. Lionel, can you hear me? You are muted, let?s1 take are of that. I think you are on now. Lionel, can you?? No, not yet. No, you are1 still muted. You may want to try to click the red microphone on the upper right corner.1 Dr. Bissoo There?1 Jai Radh Yes.1 Dr. Bissoon. Oh great, thanks. It?s my first time on the Hangout.1 Jai Radh You are kidding me.1 Dr. Bissoo Sorry about that.1 Jai Radh No problem. Thank you so much for joining us. I know you are joining us1 live from New York City.1 Dr. Bissoo It?s my pleasure. Thank you.1 Jai Radh Yeah. And you have been studying with Dr. Pillai for almost 20 years now, right?1 Dr. Pilla It?s approximately 18 to 20 years. It?s been so long that I?ve lost1 track of it.1 Jai Radh And you have a flourishing medical profession.1 Dr. Bissoo Right, my practice is here in Manhattan and it?s sports medicine, hormone1 replacement, cosmetic medicine. So, it?s a very diverse practice.1 Jai Radh Great. And I know through your experiences with Dr. Pillai?you?ve had many1 of them and we heard some in other events and in person, as well. Can you tell us a1 little bit about your experiences with the DMT meditation that Dr. Pillai gave out at1 another event? But first what is dimethyltryptamine?it?s considered the ?spirit molecule?, right?1 So, from a doctor?s perspective what is it and how has it affected you from a spiritual2 perspective?2 Dr. Bissoo Dimethyltryptamine is a molecule that?s made in the pineal gland. And this2 molecule is involved when you have dreams or you have visions. The Native American shamans2 and in South America and around the world they drink medicine, which they call ayahuasca.2 And in this brew they naturally get dimethyltryptamine. The dimethyltryptamine is responsible for2 the visions that they see during these ceremonies that they do. Interesting enough, after the2 ceremony is completed, they will tell you the scenes and things about your health. They2 will tell you plant remedies. They hear music; they see colors; they see all sorts of interesting2 things. So, to me when Baba decided that he was going to teach this meditation it would2 be an interesting way to activate the pineal gland and get this molecule naturally work2 in your body, as opposed to ingesting hallucinogenic drugs. Baba is really dead set against people2 taking any kind of hallucinogenic drugs or any kind of drugs, so to speak, for any purposes.2 So, when he decided to teach this as a meditation, I was really excited about it. And during2 that time last summer when he taught the meditation?I think we were in California?it was a really2 interesting experience. I know many people have had experiences. But during that time,2 it feels as though my brain, my head was turning into light; my hands. It was interesting as2 I tried to analyze it, the light would go from light to blue?a different color. So,2 as long as I stayed still and didn?t try to engage logically, to dissect it or analyze2 it, it just stayed light. And sometimes I do this at night and it gets so intense I2 have to basically go to sleep?because I don?t know how to handle it sometimes. That?s very,2 very powerful and the longer I do it, the intensity increases and those nights I have,2 actually, the most amazing dreams.2 Jai Radh So, from studying as a doctor molecules and experiencing this spiritually?how2 do you put that together?2 Dr. Bisoo Well, [laughs] that?s a very difficult thing because this is about self-evolution,2 but--you know?when you yourself evolve people around you sense that difference in you and2 people around you can feel there is a difference in you. And it?s almost as you attract people2 to you. So, people who are in body-mind consciousness want to be around you. As far as the medical2 practice, it?s interesting in my practice most of my patients seem to be interested2 in things like in world peace, enlightenment and improve that consciousness. So, when you2 have these people at work it makes my work a lot easier. And since they inquire, ?Hey,2 how can I learn more about where you are going, so I direct them to the website.2 Jai Radh Excellent. So, it sounds like you are able to integrate, pretty easily,2 your medical practice, your scientific mind with your spiritual experiences in studying2 with Dr. Pillai for such a long period of time.2 Dr. Bisoo Well, it?s almost impossible to separate it, because the information one2 gets from Dr. Pillai is not something you can learn anywhere?it?s not written in textbooks;2 you can?t go and study it. And, as far as I?m concerned, you are not even studying2 with him because he is imparting this knowledge to you. And you can?t go to any place, you2 can?t go home and analyze it logically, dissect it. So, it?s something I was given and other2 people sense it and they want it. And once they see the difference in you, they way you2 carry yourself, your peacefulness, your happiness?and you know, everybody is attracted to happiness.2 Everybody wants to laugh and smile, enjoy their life and be happy. And they look for2 some higher purpose in life and they sense it.2 Jai Radh Absolutely. I?m really glad you mentioned that?what you can?t get in2 a textbook. Or even what Dr. Pillai puts in his words?there is so much energy and empowerment2 behind of all of that. And I know that you know that, more than most other people, especially2 the people who haven?t been studying with him. So, thank you for reaffirming that. And,2 of course, those people who are participating in the Light Body Program, the one that happened2 last year, as well as the one that is coming up this year, get a more vivid experience2 of that, wouldn?t you say?2 Dr. Bissoo I think they do. And while you talk to people in the program these are2 the things that they express. We were in India, everybody is really excited about the program.2 It?s not about how much words you can say, how much things you can write down and memorize.2 It?s just about being in Baba?s presence, Dr. Pillai?s presence and, you know, hearing2 it directly from him. Even though you may not actually remember it resonates with some2 place in your consciousness. I mean, I was just thinking about this over the last few2 days and I realized I waited lifetimes for this moment. Waiting so long, it?s not just2 that I have been waiting five years or ten years?I must have waited 5, 10, 15, 20 lifetimes2 to have this opportunity to hear about the light body in it that way. And I realize that2 everybody who is doing this?it?s not something they read about it on the Internet and said,2 ?Hey, you know what? I think I am going to jump in on this.? You know, they have been2 waiting lifetimes. And so, all you guys, I?m glad we waited long enough and the time is2 here.2 Jai Radh Absolutely. And that?s what Dr. Pillai says, that more people will be2 drawn to this. Well, thank you so much, Dr. Bissoon. I would like to keep talking but2 we need to go to the next doctor on the panel.