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The Blissful Brain is published by Gaia Thinking. For more information on how to order your copy, please click here.

 

Guardian G2: Mind over matter by Andy Darling

"Neuroscientist Shanida Nataraja has proven meditation does more than clear your head, it can put both halves of your brain to work, improving your concentration, memory, and decision-making...". To read more, please click here.

 

Upcoming talk: Yoga Ananda, Reigate, Surrey on Friday the 4th of June

Shanida Nataraja will be speaking at a seminar on The Blissful Brain on Friday, 04th June 2010 at 19:30 at Yoga Ananda Ltd. 46 Albert Road North, Reigate, Surrey, RH2 9EL. For more information, please click here.

Chapter 3 – A concrete basis for meditation and mystical experience

Recent advances in technology mean that we can now record the activity of single brain cells, image activity in different brain regions, and pin down the role of individual chemicals in the brain in generating the wealth of human behaviour. Our new found technology therefore allows us to delve deeper into the inner working of the human brain and has revealed much about the involvement of the brain in controlling and coordinating our behaviour, including the attainment of altered or higher states of consciousness through meditation. Not only will this shed light on the important features of meditation, but its simplicity will also explain the existence of so many different types of meditation, each of which harness the same innate potential of the human brain.

Chapter 3 therefore reveals the specific brain regions and patterns of brain activity associated with the different features of mystical experiences and the different stages of meditation. In doing so, it presents evidence that suggests that humans are not only hard-wired to experience higher states of consciousness, but they are also hard-wired to experience a reality transcending our physical reality.

Please click here to read the summary for the next chapter.

Chapter 1: Meditation: what is it and why do we need it?
Chapter 2: Peering beneath the skull: how the brain works?
Chapter 3: Meditation and mystical experiences
Chapter 4: Bridging science and spirituality
Chapter 5: Hard-wired: a high performance mind
Chapter 6: Meditation and health
Chapter 7: Meditation and our everyday lives

Shanida Nataraja © 2010