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Reddit mentions of Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves
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We found 5 Reddit mentions of Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves. Here are the top ones.
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I had practiced meditation for many years before watching the video, but I had not focused much attention on happiness while meditating. Thus, while benefiting to some extent from meditation, I had not realized the potential benefits of monitoring my levels of happiness while meditating. Before watching the video, I had monitored my thoughts, but I didn't pay much attention to my emotions, other than to notice how negative emotions often led to more intrusive thoughts, making meditation more difficult.
Also, I noticed in the video that the experiments performed using the "Olympic champions of mind training" as subjects, asked them, "to put their mind in a state where there's nothing but loving kindness, total availability to sentient being," later described as meditating on compassion. After watching the talk, I began to explore different ways to meditate with a compassionate perspective. I had done some of that kind of meditating before I saw the talk, but after seeing the talk, I began to put more emphasis on compassion in my meditations.
Something clicked for me about this part of the talk that made so much sense when I heard it. I had already noticed in my life how it made me happy when I did things to help others. So, I could see how maintaining a compassionate perspective during meditation could have happiness benefits. It made sense that putting something like that into practice on a daily basis could have significant benefits. Plus, as I learned from the talk, scientific experiments even offered evidence for that idea. This led me to begin experimenting with how I meditated. I started monitoring my level of happiness while meditating and I began to explore many different ways to meditate with a compassionate perspective.
Finally, I did not miss the point made at the end of the talk about the importance of putting our compassion into action. I found that by focusing on compassion during meditation, it made me a more compassionate person. In my day to day activities, I watch for opportunities to do even small things that help others. Again, I know that my level of happiness benefits from those acts of kindness. Our lack of compassion makes us less happy and our acts of compassion make us more happy.
If you find the talk interesting, I recommend reading, Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves. The author, Sharon Begley, is a journalist who served as the science editor and science columnist for Newsweek. The book describes the relatively recent history of scientific discoveries about neural plasticity. The book goes into great detail about the back story behind the brain scan experiments performed on Buddhist meditators. I found it a well written tale, with a firsthand account of regular meetings where western scientists met with the Dalai Lama to have discussions about the consensus of scientists on topics related to mind training.
Tara Brach has a lot of guided mediations for free online.
http://www.tarabrach.com/audioarchives-guided-meditations.html
Something to consider with meditation is that you're not doing it for any end so much as to strengthen the parts of your brain that deal with emotion and reaction and focus. So instead of reacting instantly in anger or giving in to the "boredom" that causes you to need instant grat, the higher more practiced mind becomes wired to react before the emotional ego driven monkey mind.
If you want more of the science behind it this book delves into many of the
scientific studies of Buddhist monks and long time practicers of meditation and how it shows up on brain scans.
http://www.amazon.com/Train-Your-Mind-Change-Brain/dp/0345479890
If you would like a more in-depth look into Neuroscience and Buddhism, Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves is supposed to be a very good book. I have yet to check it out however.
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The brain is (to some degree) capable of reorganizing itself and a good neuropsychological program might help you to regain some abilities or at least delay further symptom onset.
The Brain that changes itself by Norman Doidge is a great introduction into neuroplasticity. Also Train your Brain, change your mind