The Most Common Myth about Meditation - All Meditation Practices Are the Same and Produce The Same Results.

The old “scientific” myth that every meditation practice creates the same physiological effects and brain wave activity has been overturned. Though many practices may provide some relaxation, decades of research now show that not all techniques produce the same range of physiological, neurophysiological or behavioral effects. Scientists can now identify what type of meditation a person is practicing, even if they are monitoring the “Meditator” from a distant room. William will outline the different scientific categories of meditation - Focused Attention, Open Monitoring and Automatic Self Transcending. He will then describe how each category differs in their mechanics and consequently their effects on the body, the brain functioning, and EEG patterns. Normally meditative states and their effects remain subjective. Brain research has now established an objective framework to show the effects a specific meditation technique is producing. It is now possible to objectively determine which meditation technique is effective for a given purpose, or if it creates the direct experience of coherent holisitic brain functioning.

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