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 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 5 – Hard-wired: a High-Performance Mind

Chapter 5 presents possible ways of raising awareness of unconscious behaviour, facilitating meditation, and optimising the performance of our brains. An understanding of the neural processes underlying altered or higher states of consciousness can provide scientific clues that facilitate our attainment of these states. Meditation often involves many years of trial and error as the practitioner slowly fine-tunes their technique. Any strategy that could potentially facilitate meditation, and enhance the performance of the human brain, is therefore welcome. Chapter 5 provides an overview of different strategies that have been tested, including pyschoactive substances, biofeedback and neurofeedback. This evidence suggests that the integration of spiritual practice and technology can further accelerate personal and spiritual development.

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