http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/choke/201106/how-mindfulness-meditation-alters-the-brain

How Mindfulness Meditation Alters the Brain
Mindfulness quiets brain regions responsible for our sense of self


TM, on the other hand, actually brings about a higher activation of some of the 
same regions of the brain that mindfulness represses.


Mindfulness represses self. TM broadens/expands/enhances self.

L

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "drpsutphen" <drpsutphen@...> wrote:
>
> Techniques are simply means to "arrive" someplace. Once you get there, how 
> you arrived is irrelevant. And you know that, "Buddhist terms are associated 
> with techniques that suppress the activity of the parts of the brain 
> associated with "sense of self.". Pray tell me how do you know this? 
> References? Or is this something you made up?
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <LEnglish5@> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > 
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "drpsutphen" <drpsutphen@> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > As a side note, I actually find buddhist terms to offer a better 
> > > conceptual tool set when discussing enlightenment than the vedic/hindu 
> > > terms. They are, in my experience, more precise and capture subtleties 
> > > that the vedic/hindu terms miss.   
> > 
> > 
> > The Buddhist terms are associated with techniques that suppress the 
> > activity of the parts of the brain associated with "sense of self."
> > 
> > TM doesn't do that.
> > 
> > I'm wondering: you still practicing standard TM, os something learned from 
> > someone else...
> > And remember: TM exists as it does because of HOW it is taught, not the 
> > words used to describe it.
> > 
> > Samatha techniques are often described as "effortless concentration," but 
> > their long-term practice leads to increases in gamma EEG and decreases in 
> > alpha EEG, both during and outside of meditation. This is the exact 
> > opposite of the long-term effect of TM.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > L
> >
>


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