[GJM] Training the Brain/Mind

[E. Crockett]

Happy Mothers Day To All
From:  Prof. Ulysses S. Crockett, Jr.
--- mary rose <maryrose333 at att.net> wrote:

> I want to refer everyone to the website of Dr. John
> J. Harper, author of Transformers, Shamans of the
> 21st Century. http://www.johnjayharper.com  The
> forward to Dr. Harper's book is written by Dr. Bruce
> H. Lipton, and takes us into another level of
> understanding of the "Who of I Am," with research
> solidly based in scientific discovery. 
> 
> Here is an excerpt from the website which is
> pertinent to past dialogue on the effectiveness of
> meditation to increase learning ability.   mary rose
>       
> 
> http://www.johnjayharper.com/meditation.htm
> 
> Meditation Gives Brain a Charge       
> by Mark Kaufman 
> 
> Excerpts from Washington Post Staff Writer  January
> 3, 2005 
> 
>  
> 
> Brain research is beginning to produce concrete
> evidence for something that Buddhist practitioners
> of meditation have maintained for centuries: Mental
> discipline and meditative practice can change the
> workings of the brain and allow people to achieve
> different levels of awareness.
> 
> Those transformed states have traditionally been
> understood in transcendent terms, as something
> outside the world of physical measurement and
> objective evaluation. But over the past few years,
> researchers at the University of Wisconsin working
> with Tibetan monks have been able to translate those
> mental experiences into the scientific language of
> high-frequency gamma waves and brain synchrony, or
> coordination. And they have pinpointed the left
> prefrontal cortex, an area just behind the left
> forehead, as the place where brain activity
> associated with meditation is especially intense.
> 
> What we found is that the longtime practitioners
> showed brain activation on a scale we have never
> seen before," said Richard Davidson, a
> neuroscientist at the university's new $10 million
> W. M. Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging
> and Behavior. "Their mental practice is having an
> effect on the brain in the same way golf or tennis
> practice will enhance performance." It demonstrates,
> he said, that the brain is capable of being trained
> and physically modified in ways few people can
> imagine.
> 
> What we found is that the trained mind, or brain, is
> physically different from the untrained one," he
> said. In time, "we'll be able to better understand
> the potential importance of this kind of mental
> training and increase the likelihood that it will be
> taken seriously." 
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