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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 6 – Meditation and health

Chapter 6 outlines the impact of meditation on the health and well-being of the practitioner. What are the health benefits of meditation? In recent years, a large body of research has focused on the physical and psychological impact of meditation. However, gleaning meaningful information from these studies is fraught with difficulties and prone to misinterpretation. Furthermore, the growing interest of the Western media in meditation and practices such as tai chi, chi gung, and yoga has also flooded our culture with huge volumes of information (or misinformation) about these practices, some positive and some negative. It is therefore hard to obtain an accurate picture of the impact of meditation on the practitioner’s state of health and well-being. Chapter 6 provides an overview of the research published in peer-reviewed medical journals on the impact of meditation on the health of the practitioner, leaving the reader with an accurate picture of what meditation involves, as well as its long-term benefits

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

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