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Ordering
The Blissful Brain
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
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The
Times: Calm down dear by Angela Pertusini
"Claims by the neuroscientist Shanida
Nataraja regarding the benefits of meditation have been backed
up by rigourous scientific research and are explained in her
acclaimed book The Blissful Brain: Neuroscience and Proof
of the Power of Meditation". To read more, please click
here.
Just
this Day event: A Day of Silence and Stillness at St
Martin's in the Field on 23rd of November 2011
Shanida Nataraja will be participating in
this exciting event that aims to explore the power of silience
and stillness in our busy world. For more information, please
click
here or visit the Just
This Day website.
Mindfulness
in the Workplace: Brain based approaches to improving employee
resilience and productivity at Robinson College, Cambridge
on 10 February 2012
Shanida Nataraja will be speaking at this
day event that brings together leading experts in mindfulness
to discuss how it could help organisations improve productivity
& resiliance. Speakers include Professor Mark Williams, Michael
Chaskalson, Ruby Wax, Margaret Chapman, and more (for more
information, please see click
here.
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or visit the Just
This Day website.
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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
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