Research suggests that meditation can change brain structure, enhance mental abilities and work alongside traditional medicine to speed up healing.
Certainly, when I learned Transcendental Meditation through a formal course many years ago it was in some ways a life-changing experience, although I quickly moved away from the more cultish aspects of TM.
I don't entirely buy the claim that just a few minutes' daily meditation can make a difference between an anxious existence and a life of quiet contentment...but it helps.
For me, TM opened inner portals that have never fully closed again.
Perhaps, however, as the Dalai Lama put it, for many, "sleep is the best meditation".
Below are body scans of varying lengths:
- 10 minute Body Scan by Elisha Goldstein
- 15 minute Body Scan by Mark Williams
- 15 minute Body Scan by Eluned Gold (Bangor University)
- https://www.bangor.ac.uk/mindfulness/media/Jody-Mardula-Short-Meditations/02-Body-Scan.mp3
- 20 minute Body Scan: You Tube by MBSR Mindfulness
- 25 minute body scan by Taravajra (Bangor University)
Further reading:
- Being more mindful about mindfulness
- How meditation can change your life and mind
- Meditation could be good for the gut
- Meditation is like mountaineering: approach it with care
- Meditation reorganises the brain’s spatial topography
- Philosophical Meditations
- The 3 myths of mindfulness
- The Science of Meditation | Sam Harris
- What happens to the brain during consciousness-ending meditation?
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