| In the United States it has now been estimated that | | | | and the mind fell into its natural state wherein the |
| over 10 million Americans practice some form of | | | | power of now begins. People are always yearning to |
| meditation daily whilst in Europe their counterparts | | | | return to this ‘peak’ experience |
| are catching on and for good reason. Scientists are | | | | The Power of Now |
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| systems but it is also, from the result of brain scans | | | | pioneers on the teaching circuit today and in his best |
| they have done, rewiring and even reshaping the | | | | selling book The Power of Now he lullaby’s the |
| brains of the meditators. | | | | intellect to sleep in order to release a rarely |
| Richard Gere does it, Goldy Hawn does it, Sir John | | | | witnessed space of serenity. When he realised that |
| Harvey Jones does it, Jet Li does it and Sting too. | | | | there existed what can be best described as an 'I |
| With a celebrity list of acting, sports and | | | | am' and the 'persona of self' he put an end to this |
| entrepreneurial practitioners - meditation is the | | | | internal civil war and fired the persona. After this |
| holistically minded person’s secret garden. | | | | reconnection to what he fundamentally was and is, |
| Meditation is the greatest gift that you could ever | | | | underneath the trickery of his ego, he spent the |
| give to yourself. The purpose of meditation is to | | | | next two years sitting on a park bench in a state of |
| introduce you to the sky like nature of your mind | | | | what he describes as being "the most intense joy". |
| which may give you freedom from possible eons of | | | | People eventually had to ask what was making him |
| mental and intellectual darkness. All spiritual traditions | | | | so inanely happy, the result - his best selling book. |
| practice meditation especially Buddhist, Sufi and Hindu | | | | Mantra – That which protects the mind |
| paths. By arresting the intellect and putting the ego | | | | Sound vibrates and by creating certain vibrations in |
| on notice, we can return to our long forgotten core | | | | the body one can literally serenade the mind into |
| consciousness. The practice is not to be a pursuit | | | | peace. Everyone remembers Tina Turner chanting in |
| that brings the mind into a mental dullness or torpor it | | | | the movie about her life in front of a Buddhist shrine. |
| is rather a release, or gradual unveiling of the mind | | | | Chanting sacred syllables brings the mind home. By |
| into a luminous, crisp and alert awareness. | | | | repeatedly chanting Om Ah Hum you can purify the |
| Looking For Mind - Buddhist Meditation | | | | space you are in, all sounds and the thoughts and |
| Contemporary scientific research into meditation | | | | emotions. |
| began in the late 1960's when an Indian researcher | | | | In No Sense |
| called BK Anand found that yogis could meditate | | | | Contrary to popular opinion children can meditate if |
| themselves into trances so deep that they did not | | | | encouraged. When I interviewed a Montessori school |
| react when hot test tubes were placed on their arm. | | | | educator from India she told me that the kids in her |
| The most significant breakthrough came in 1967 | | | | school ask for what they call a ‘silence’. |
| when Dr Herbert Benson a professor of medicine | | | | That is 40 four year olds, preparing a circle of chairs |
| afraid of what his peers would say to a study on | | | | sitting quiet and still for forty minutes at a time. |
| transcendental meditators, sneaked 36 of them into | | | | Little Sips are Better Than Gulps |
| his laboratory and found that when they meditated | | | | NASA’s astronauts explore outer space whilst |
| they used; 17% less oxygen, lowered their heart | | | | authentic meditators explore inner space |
| rates by three beats a minute, and increased the | | | | psychenauts. The ultimate peak in meditation is |
| brain waves that come just before sleep. His studies | | | | enlightenment but there is a slight catch. There is no |
| went on to be known famously as The Relaxation | | | | such thing as an enlightened person there is only |
| Response. | | | | enlightened activity. For those who have not started |
| Several years later a Harvard psychiatrist called | | | | meditating – don’t. For those who have |
| Gregg Jacobs studied meditators and found that the | | | | – never give up as you are only ever one eye |
| front part of their brains became deactivated when | | | | blink away from total awakening. |
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| that the brain does not shut down as it was | | | | We have studied our material through independent |
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| connected with emotions and immunity. | | | | years. Their technology is based and confirmed by |
| Everybody remembers a place when they were at | | | | over 77 scientific papers and by a number of medical |
| total peace, all the clouds of thinking had dispersed | | | | and nutrition Professors and prestigious institutions. |