tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21077063.post2723232455147921720..comments2024-02-16T08:32:46.618+00:00Comments on Donald Clark Plan B: Mind reading and learningDonald Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00796341486328270474noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21077063.post-75157069048406339852011-07-11T04:30:29.813+00:002011-07-11T04:30:29.813+00:00AND could they play piano after imagining it?
Coo...AND could they play piano after imagining it? <br />Cool, I'm going to fly off the roof now. Thanks for the research tips that will be mighty useful in my trip.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21077063.post-81722944084769059142009-03-13T16:16:00.000+00:002009-03-13T16:16:00.000+00:00This is absolutely true,a kind of thoughtless awar...This is absolutely true,a kind of thoughtless awareness exists after you have confronted the negative emotions. I have been meditating since I was in college and it has molded my perception, it is imperfect but much clearer and better that what it was initially. After reading Autobiography of a Yogi there was a curiosity about life and what lies beyond. See if can sense the thoughtlessness when you follow the instructions here: http://www.sahajayoga.org/<BR/>It is not just the ability of handling emotions but also another existence waiting us there, just like this virtual world. When one can practice this, there are many stages where the experiences are beyond the human capacity of putting them in words. Someday maybe this brain mapping will decipher these deeper levels of human consciousness. There is a sensation of extreme pleasure that cannot be compared to any of the sensations we experience it is better than being elated after achieving a goal, feeling happy after getting new clothes,child or any material object. It cannot be compared to orgasm as it is a long lasting state and again the joy is something that cannot be captured in words. That is the catch, no one can describe it, one has to experience it. I feel helpless but it is such a wonderful state that if it was possible I would share with all the people I came across. Am sorry, I got carried away but this subject is close to my heart. <BR/><BR/>Incidentally it was a Britisher, Sir John Woodroffe alias Arthur Avalon, who wrote the most authoritative book 'The Serpent Power' on these practices in the eighteenth century. Thanks for this information, I will collect this in my File.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21077063.post-39758100877235400362009-03-13T12:03:00.000+00:002009-03-13T12:03:00.000+00:00Absolutely Rina. UCLA psychologist Matthew Lieberm...Absolutely Rina. UCLA psychologist Matthew Liebermanput 30 people through magnetic resonance imaging machines.<BR/><BR/>They were asked to look at pictures of male or female faces making emotional expressions, below which were a choice of words describing the emotion—such as “angry” or “fearful”— or two possible names for the people in the pictures, one male name and one female name.<BR/><BR/>They were asked to choose the most appropriate emotion or gender-appropriate name to fit the face they saw.<BR/><BR/>When the participants chose labels for the negative emotions, activity in the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex region (an area associated with thinking in words about emotional experiences) became more active, whereas activity in the amygdala (a brain region involved in emotional processing) was calmed.<BR/><BR/>By contrast, when the subjects picked appropriate names for the faces, the brain scans revealed none of these changes—indicating that only emotional labeling makes a difference.<BR/><BR/>Psychological Science (2007)<BR/><BR/>In a second experiment, 27 of the same subjects completed questionnaires to determine how “mindful” they are.<BR/><BR/>Meditation and other “mindfulness” techniques are designed to help people pay more attention to their present emotions, thoughts and sensations without reacting strongly to them. Meditators often acknowledge and name their negative emotions in order to “let them go.”<BR/><BR/>When the team compared brain scans from subjects who had more mindful dispositions to those from subjects who were less mindful, they found a stark difference—the mindful subjects experienced greater activation in the right ventrolateral prefrontral cortex and a greater calming effect in the amygdala after labeling their emotions.<BR/><BR/>“These findings may help explain the beneficial health effects of mindfulness meditation, and suggest, for the first time, an underlying reason why mindfulness meditation programs improve mood and health,” said David Creswell, a UCLA psychologist who led the second part of the study.<BR/><BR/>Psychosomatic Medicine (2007)Donald Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00796341486328270474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21077063.post-39417011072742748742009-03-13T11:45:00.000+00:002009-03-13T11:45:00.000+00:00This is very interesting Donald, another area wher...This is very interesting Donald, another area where they should research is:meditation. I do not know how it works but I have seen after meditating, when one goes into the thoughtless state, the mind receives and processes the information in a different way. <BR/><BR/>There are faculties that are normally dormant that suddenly get activated and there is a surely wonderful fine-tuning happening between the IQ and the EQ. <BR/><BR/>These posts are ideal for mental exercises. makes many people think! Thanks for sharing this and now I tell others that the secret is practice. The reinforcement has made this a constant factor in my mind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com