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Anonymous Sat 07 Nov 22:08:05 2020 No.12315944 View Reply Original Report

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Does meditation bring any significant benefit to the brain?

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Anonymous Sat 07 Nov 2020 23:20:27 No.12316138 Report

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>>12315944
It depends if you know it, but if you do, yes it does.

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Anonymous Sat 07 Nov 2020 23:39:54 No.12316211 Report

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>>12315944
no evidence to say so

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Anonymous Sat 07 Nov 2020 23:46:07 No.12316234 Report

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>>12315944
Stop saying "meditation" and start using the specific meditation, aka mindfulness/insight meditation. That mindful meditation has the most scientific research done and is largely accepted as something to be studied.

When you say "meditation" in general, you get spooks who also want to bring in their god/spirits worship into discussion.

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 00:18:20 No.12316340 Report

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Yes, some people studied life long monks and their brain. Don't remember the specifics but their brain was able to do some things better.

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 00:22:54 No.12316363 Report

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>>12315944
Meditation is better than drugs

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 01:02:20 No.12316477 Report

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>>12316363
Got myself off drugs in last 2y, in first year i started avoiding marijuana more and more, and in this year i had maybe 20 30 small joints, small like hand rolled tobacco, clean from alcohol and weed for 7months, never felt better.

Thanks for your post anon i will try meditation, any tips?

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 07:41:55 No.12317289 Report

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>>12316211
some people really do just say shit on this board

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 08:18:12 No.12317379 Report

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>>12315944
No it doesn't

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 08:30:50 No.12317407 Report

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>>12316477
at least try it a minute per day

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 10:35:09 No.12317616 Report

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>>12317289
yes, go ahead and show me how meditation is so beneficial just because of that one study in which people who meditated for 20 years have a slightly larger grey matter density in 2 parts of the brain lol
develop some expertise before speaking, midwit

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 14:39:16 No.12317993 Report

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no it's fake people have just making up the benefits for thousands of years ha ha like didn't you know everyone everywhere was just bullshitting about everything for all of history before brain scans

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 15:09:04 No.12318041 Report

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>>12317616
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/12-benefits-of-meditation#9.-Improves-sleep

40+ citations from pubmed. I'm not going to take the time to post them because I doubt that you have access to a database if you're making claims of this idiotic caliber. At the root of meditation, there is stress reduction and there is quite literally thousands of articles on the beneficial short term and long term effects of stress reduction and stress reduction techniques but, frankly, I don't think you'll even believe that so I'll just leave you with the same advice I give to flat earthers and people who don't believe the infinite evidence we have for obvious information.
Go. Try. It. Yourself. Yeah?

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 15:22:20 No.12318066 Report

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>>12318041
ah, a relaxation technique improves sleep
fucking unbelievable and totally relevant to the OP

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 15:26:42 No.12318070 Report

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>>12315944
There's a Harvard study showing that meditation atleast 20 min 5x a week for 8 weeks leads to permanent structural brain changes measured via brain imaging techniques.
So yes it works but not if you meditate 5 min once a week.

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 15:28:14 No.12318073 Report

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>>12318070
hitting your head with a baseball bat leads to permanent structural brain changes too
does it mean it's good for your brain?
fucking retards on this board lol

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 15:33:51 No.12318087 Report

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Depends on the type of meditation. In Theravada Buddhism, there's a form of meditation in which monks take at rip to the coroner's office and watch a body get dissected.

Is insight aka mindfulness aka Vipassana meditation good for you? Yeah. Is watching yourself think good for you? Yeah. What more do you need?

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 15:34:25 No.12318091 Report

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>>12318066
>significant benefit to the brain
>Improves sleep
Sounds like a significant benefit to me.

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 15:35:20 No.12318093 Report

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>>12318091
that's cuz you're retarded

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 15:36:26 No.12318099 Report

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>>12318093
You a proponent of nosleep?

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 15:57:49 No.12318152 Report

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>>12318087
>there's a form of meditation in which monks take at rip to the coroner's office and watch a body get dissected.
why should they do that?

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 16:09:29 No.12318170 Report

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>>12318099
Checked and verified. The sleep-poster has been caught!

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 16:21:49 No.12318190 Report

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>>12315944
no

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 16:26:44 No.12318196 Report

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>>12315944
I found that it reinforced my imminiscence by 14.73%

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 19:48:45 No.12318784 Report

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>>12317993
Gold engineer reasoning. Leave the heavy thinking to us physicists

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 19:59:22 No.12318828 Report

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>>12315944
its a meme. the term "meditation" can mean a lot of things. the only sensible one for your brain is mediation where you focus on and think about one thing. you don't need fancy terms like mediation to describe that. its simply called thinking and focusing. meditation just gets a lot of attention despite being plain retardation because it has some mysticism surrounding it. the smartest scientists didn't "meditate". they focused, thought, and worked.

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 20:38:41 No.12319004 Report

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>>12318828
> the only sensible one for your brain is mediation where you focus on and think about one thing
>they focused, thought, and worked.

so they meditated

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 20:50:24 No.12319063 Report

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>>12315944
Not sure about the brain but it helped my nervous system.

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 20:52:26 No.12319079 Report

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>>12318784
>Heavy thinking

I mean if coming up with bullshit that does nothing to help humanity is what you mean, then yeah.

You can't really take the high ground here since modern physics can only say "muh bigger particle collider" and "muh many worlds theory" these days. Yeah, loads of heavy thinking there.

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 20:59:01 No.12319117 Report

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>>12315944
Yes, if you require a the type of therapy mediation provides.
Alcoholics Anonymous isn't necessary for people who aren't alcoholics and it's somewhat harmful in it's religious tenants. If someone is struggling with alcoholism, then AA becomes a useful tool to quit it.

The same thing for mediation. Some people have a hard time with anger and a hard time thinking before speaking and meditation provides tools to combat both of those.

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 21:04:16 No.12319133 Report

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>>12319079
the vast majority of scientists are outclassed in usefulness to society by janitors & plumbers desu

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 21:11:11 No.12319162 Report

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>>12319133
Truth. Nothing but respect to the working class and the front line workers.

I was just trying to bring the physicists' ego down a notch, which in truth is a futile task.

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 21:13:51 No.12319175 Report

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>>12319004
by this logic everyone already meditates. the term meditation is retarded.

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Anonymous Sun 08 Nov 2020 21:37:14 No.12319252 Report

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>>12319175
well by this logic you obviously don't. maybe if you tried it for a while you wouldn't be so pissy?

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Anonymous Mon 09 Nov 2020 08:08:21 No.12321179 Report

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>>12315944
bye pepe

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