1. Meditation - like psychotherapy tends to release unconscious material 2. Reported adverse effects range from depression - anxiety - and dissociation to psychosis 3. There may be other psychological risks as well - such as increase in passivity

Who show increased neural synchrony and high levels of gamma wave activity (even when not meditating)?

Heat energy to burn off incureties

Buddhist insight meditation (only do after you have done years of practice meditation)

Focused repetition of memorized passages from world scripture and the writings of great mystics; reading something like a script from the bible

1. Relief of depression and anxiety and prevention of relapse 2. Reduction of recidivism rates of prisoners 3. Improves attention

Take any position you want (sit - stand - lie down) - your back should be straight. Don't cross your arms or legs - try to be straight as possible. Take a few slow deep breaths and bring your eyes downward. If intention wanders (which it will) - just

Not the same as analyzing something

1. Produces 'a wakeful - hypometabolic state of parasympathetic activity' and can thus be used to treat stress-related disorders - Large number of studies have indicated that meditation can reduce hypertension - insomnia - anxiety - asthma - and depr

Processes space and time; may be related to sense of dissolution of boundaries between self and non-self

Increased gray matter in the prefrontal cortex and the right anterior insula - as well as the hippocampus (learning and memory) - the cingulate cortex (emotional regulation) - and the temporo-parietal junction (empathy); it is associated with reducti