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Anything that help in reducing stress must have an effect on pH balance. Bio-feedback, meditation, yoga.

Furthermore, advanced adepts in meditation show brain wave patterns and brain synchronizations not found in normal population.

If memory serves me well, I remember that at least 30 years ago Dr. Alfred A. Tomatis did some research on the effect of music on children creativity. He found that the music that had the most positive effects were Mozarts (now called the Mozart effect), Baroque Music and Gregorian Chants. The music with the least positive effects: Hard Rock.

From: http://meditation-health.suite101.com/article.cfm/meditation_changes_the_brain

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Meditation Changes the Brain
Meditative Experience Translated into the Science of Brain Waves

© Martin Bohn

Dec 4, 2008
Neuroscientist Richard Davidson found that meditation has a profound and permanent impact on the brain, improving its capacities for awareness and happiness.

While the positive physiological effects of meditation (such as reduced blood pressure, lower pulse rate and decreased metabolic rate) are already widely accepted by the scientific community, there has been relatively little research about the mental effects of meditation. This seems to change, however, as modern brain research seems to have the necessary scientific tools to show in an objective, scientific manner what meditators have always felt subjectively: That meditation is a tool for happiness and higher awareness.
The Study

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have worked with Tibetan monks to translate the mental experience of meditation into the scientific language of brain waves, using EEG testing and brain scanning. The monks were asked to meditate on unconditional compassion, a Buddhist meditative practice which doesn’t require concentration on particular objects or images but rather cultivates a state of compassion in the mind. There was also a control group without any previous experience in meditation.
Findings

According to Richard Davidson, neuroscientist at the university’s Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior, the results demonstrate that the brain is capable of being trained and physically modified in hitherto unimagined ways.

The study also found that:

* experienced meditators show high-frequency gamma waves associated with higher mental activity, perception and consciousness.
* The mental practice of meditation has an effect on the brain the same way as learning physical activities such as golf or tennis do. That is: The mere mental activity of meditation leaves an imprint on the brain and these changes can be made visible through scientific methods.
* The human brain remains moldable throughout life: new connections among brain nerve cells can constantly be grown.
* Mental training can change the way our brains work.
* These changes are likely to be permanent. The monks in the study showed higher than normal gamma wave activity even before they were meditating.
* The monks in that study showed much more and unusually powerful gamma-waves than the control group consisting of volunteers without previous meditation experience.
* The higher the meditation experience, the higher were the levels of gamma waves. Some experienced monks showed the most powerful gamma waves ever to be documented in a human being. In the control group without previous meditation experience, the increases in gamma waves were only slight.

A more recent study by Sara Lazar found that meditation even increases the size of the brain.
Happy through Meditation

Interestingly, the findings of this study were consistent with Davidson’s earlier work in which he showed the left prefrontal cortex to be associated with happiness and positive thought. In the present study, brain activity during meditation was highest in just this area of the brain. This seems to scientifically prove what meditators from different spiritual traditions have known and experienced for centuries: That meditation is a simple, yet powerful tool for achieving happiness.

Source: Article in Washington Post on Monday, January 3, 2005
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From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthieu_Ricard

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Matthieu Ricard (born 1946) is a Buddhist monk who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal.

Born in Paris, he is the son of the late Jean-François Revel (born Jean-François Ricard), a renowned French philosopher, and grew up among the personalities and ideas of French intellectual circles. He first traveled to India in 1967.

He worked for a Ph.D. degree in molecular genetics at the Institut Pasteur. After completing his doctoral thesis in 1972, Ricard decided to forsake his scientific career and concentrate on the practice of Tibetan Buddhism. He lived in the Himalayas studying with the Kangyur Rinpoche and some other great masters of that tradition and became the close student and attendant of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche until his passing in 1991. Since then, Mr. Ricard has dedicated his activities to fulfilling Khyentse Rinpoche’s vision.
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From: http://www.allaboutgod.com/christian-meditation.htm

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Christian Meditation: Is it Christian to Meditate?

Christian meditation is rooted in the Bible. In fact, the Bible commands us to meditate. In Joshua 1:8, God says to meditate on His word day and night so we will obey it. The psalmist says "his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night" (Psalm 1:2). Actually, the Bible mentions meditate or meditation 20 times.

In the Old Testament there are two primary Hebrew words for meditation: Haga, which means to utter, groan, meditate, or ponder; and Sihach, which means to muse, rehearse in one's mind, or contemplate. These words can also be translated as dwell, diligently consider, and heed.
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Other Articles

Buddha on the Brain
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.02/dalai.html



The Physical and Psychological Effects of Meditation
http://www.noetic.org/research/medbiblio/index.htm



Changes in Alpha Wave and State Anxiety during ChunDoSunBup Qi-Training in Trainees with Open Eyes
http://www.worldscinet.com/cgi-bin/details.cgi?id=pii:S0192415X97000329&type=...


AN ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC STUDY ON THE ZEN MEDITATION (ZAZEN)
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119728939/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0




 

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