We see all kinds of orientations, where someone’s neck is twisted, you can see their chin is pointing right, the chin is pointing left, the chin is pointing up… I see everybody misaligned in some gross or subtle way. When they get activated and the Qi is flowing in deep meditation, the Qi is going to want to jump that gap, pass through that gate into the brain. And what’s going to happen there?
A scholar and practitioner of Chinese medicine talks about how the psychological problems that can arise in meditation often have their start, or at least early warning signs, in the body, and how a more careful attention to our bones and muscles—as well as our physical and social environments—can prevent many cases of “meditation sickness.”
]]>a multicriteria assessment of 24 meat and milk alternatives that integrates nutritional, health, environmental, and cost analyses with a focus on high-income countries.
]]>Our findings suggest that a range of food products exist that when replacing meat and dairy in current diets would have multiple benefits, including reductions in nutritional imbalances, dietary risks and mortality, environmental resource use and pollution, and when choosing unprocessed foods over processed ones also diet costs.
In 2025, in 1812, in 2000 BC, the death of a young child is the worst thing that could happen to any parent.
]]>Disturbing the remains of the Egyptian Pharaohs is known to incur a deadly curse…
Scientists now think they know why…
]]>…whether you’re sweating and actually exercising or just sweating in a sauna, because your heart is pumping blood so quickly through your body in order to cool down, you’re getting the release of all these happy chemicals like epinephrine and endorphins. And they do make you feel so happy that you are having a catharsis, right? You feel like you’re getting out toxic emotions. While that’s certainly true, you’re not literally getting out toxic chemicals.
]]>Whereas the texts discussed in the first section generally argue for a stricter separation between these two domains, those in the second [Mahāyāna wave] strove to integrate medicine into the very heart of Buddhism.
On how the relief of medical suffering became central to Mahāyāna Buddhism.
]]>Acute tissue injury activates an ensemble of interdependent nervous, endocrine, and immune processes that operate in concert and comprise a supersystem. Some chronic pain conditions result from supersystem dysregulation. Individuals vary and are vulnerable to dysregulation due to the unique interactions of genetic, epigenetic, and environmental factors and past experiences that characterize each person.
]]>Overall, the results of this first review on the topic support the efficacy of MBIs for changing obesity-related eating behaviours, specifically binge eating, emotional eating and external eating.
]]>Consistent with study predictions, mixed effect linear models indicated that the MBSR program reduced loneliness, compared to small increases in loneliness in the control group (treatment condition × time interaction: F(1,35) = 7.86, p = .008). Moreover, at baseline, there was an association between reported loneliness and upregulated pro-inflammatory NF-κB-related gene expression in circulating leukocytes, and MBSR downregulated this NF-κB-associated gene expression profile at post-treatment. Finally, there was a trend for MBSR to reduce C Reactive Protein (treatment condition × time interaction: (F(1,33) = 3.39, p = .075).
]]>The Mindfulness group showed significant improvement relative to the Sleep Hygiene group on secondary health outcomes of insomnia symptoms, depression symptoms, fatigue interference, and fatigue severity (P < .05 for all).
]]>Surviving a famine nearly doubles the risk of diabetes in the next generation.
]]>… increased meditation practice was correlated with decreased TSST-induced IL-6 and POMS distress scores. Moreover, individuals with meditation practice times above the median exhibited lower TSST-induced IL-6 and POMS distress scores compared to individuals below the median, who did not differ from controls.
Compassion meditation helps build resilience—but only if you do it!
]]>Changes in gray matter concentration were investigated using voxel-based morphometry, and compared with a waiting list control group of 17 individuals. Analyses in a priori regions of interest confirmed increases in gray matter concentration within the left hippocampus. Whole brain analyses identified increases in the posterior cingulate cortex, the temporo-parietal junction, and the cerebellum in the MBSR group compared with the controls. The results suggest that participation in MBSR is associated with changes in gray matter concentration in brain regions involved in learning and memory processes, emotion regulation, self-referential processing, and perspective taking.
]]>But because it is known by me, seen, found, realised, contacted by wisdom thus: ‘Here, when someone feels a certain kind of pleasant feeling, unwholesome states increase in him and wholesome states diminish,’ that I therefore say: ‘Abandon such a kind of pleasant feeling.’
The Buddha admonishes a group of monks who refused to give up eating in the afternoon with a unique teaching on the stages of the path.
]]>Mendicants, there are these five drawbacks for a family who takes their meals late in the day.
And five benefits of eating at a reasonable hour.
]]>The hypertensive risk of the Tibetan Buddhists is significantly decreased by 38% than Tibetan residents. As a Buddhist behavior, vegetarian diet highly approximates to be protective for Tibetan hypertension. As another Buddhist behavior, longer Buddhist activity participation time is associated with decreased prevalence of hypertension as well as lower blood pressure by analyzing subgroup of 570 Buddhists.
]]>Why do we feel this and what can we do about it?
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America’s top scientists give concise answers to the public’s most commonly asked questions, such as:
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]]>… how culture reflects and shapes the mind and behavior of its members
]]>What even is the immune system and how does it actually work?
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