Meditation Becomes Beneficial Surprisingly Fast

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Post by dhimes » Fri, Jun 25, 2010, 9:10 PM UTC

Meditation Becomes Beneficial Surprisingly Fast
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Re: Meditation Becomes Beneficial Surprisingly Fast

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Post by brihas » Fri, Jun 25, 2010, 9:45 PM UTC

Check out Vipassana meditation: http://www.dhamma.org. They offer 10-day residential courses for no charge at centres worldwide.

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Post by mannicken » Fri, Jun 25, 2010, 10:05 PM UTC

I used to meditate but no longer do since I'm starting to trip (audial/visual hallucinations) very fast and the trip is usually not a good one. It is a very powerful natural psychedelic experience, comparable to third plateau of DXM at least... but controllable, unlike DXM.

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Post by petervandijck » Fri, Jun 25, 2010, 10:09 PM UTC

mannicken wrote: post #3

I used to meditate but no longer do since I'm starting to trip (audial/visual hallucinations) very fast and the trip is usually not a good one. It is a very powerful natural psychedelic experience, comparable to third plateau of DXM at least... but controllable, unlike DXM.

I don't think the idea is to get hallucinations?

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Post by Estragon » Fri, Jun 25, 2010, 10:09 PM UTC

An equally valid interpretation is that Tolkien rots your brain. This is shoddy science, because their "control" experiment is little more than a fig leaf.

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Post by d_c » Fri, Jun 25, 2010, 10:09 PM UTC

mannicken wrote: post #3

I used to meditate but no longer do since I'm starting to trip (audial/visual hallucinations) very fast and the trip is usually not a good one. It is a very powerful natural psychedelic experience, comparable to third plateau of DXM at least... but controllable, unlike DXM.

That definitely does not happen for me. Do you close your eyes while meditating?

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Post by yewweitan » Fri, Jun 25, 2010, 10:22 PM UTC

Mattheiu Ricard on Meditation - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZwnXj0Ck1k

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Post by 10ren » Fri, Jun 25, 2010, 10:27 PM UTC

it's 4 x 20 minutes, according to these articles about the paper: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100414184220.ht... http://living-mindfullyblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/cognition-a...

This one claims to have the fulltext, but their webpage is broken for me: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/42975499_Mindfulness...

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Post by moolave » Fri, Jun 25, 2010, 10:30 PM UTC

I can say it's true that meditation does help with insomnia. In my case, it has made me sleep easily. Give it some time to relax and breathe, next thing you know you are feeling groggy. I know some serious meditators avoid falling asleep if they want to do these for hours, but it can be a challenge achieving that.

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Post by alexkiwi » Fri, Jun 25, 2010, 10:38 PM UTC

mannicken wrote: post #3

I used to meditate but no longer do since I'm starting to trip (audial/visual hallucinations) very fast and the trip is usually not a good one. It is a very powerful natural psychedelic experience, comparable to third plateau of DXM at least... but controllable, unlike DXM.

were you on nutmeg?