"spirituality" videos

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by smallStops, Feb 8, 2013.

Thread Status:
Not open for further replies.
  1. <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DOHcGyfYxVM?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
     
    #51     Mar 16, 2013
  2. neuroscience perspective on empathy, compassion.
    compassion and brain neurons!

    <iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g4kElWIAN0s?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
     
    #52     Mar 16, 2013
  3. Mysteron

    Mysteron

    I'm thinking that this site, i.e. Elite Trader, should be about trading and related matters only, and that you should fuk off and find a site more suited to your goody goody spiritualistic, pseudo religious preaching.
     
    #53     Mar 16, 2013
  4. wow. What is really upsetting you?
     
    #54     Mar 16, 2013
  5. #55     Mar 16, 2013
  6. brain scan of a monk actively extending compassion shows activity in the striatum, an area of the brain associated with reward processing



    [​IMG]

    http://www.sfgate.com/health/articl...ditation-compassion-3689748.php#photo-3165600

    Stanford neuroeconomist Brian Knutson is an expert in the pleasure center of the brain that works in tandem with our financial decisions - the biology behind why we bypass the kitchen coffeemaker to buy the $4 Starbucks coffee every day.

    He can hook you up to a brain scanner, take you on a simulated shopping spree and tell by looking at your nucleus accumbens - an area deep inside your brain associated with fight, flight, eating and fornicating - how you process risk and reward, whether you're a spendthrift or a tightwad.
    ...
    "The Buddhist view of the world can provide some potentially interesting information about the subcortical reward circuits involved in motivation."
    ...
    stress reduction
    ...
    People who meditate show more left-brain hemisphere dominance, according to meditation studies done at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

    "Essentially when you spend a lot of time meditating, the brain shows a pattern of feeling safe in the world and more comfortable in approaching people and situations, and less vigilant and afraid, which is more associated with the right hemisphere.

    ...
    improved perception
    Volunteers who spent an average of 500 hours in focused-attention meditation during a three-month retreat in 2007 were better than the control group at detecting slight differences in the length of lines flashed on a screen.
     
    #56     Mar 16, 2013
  7. I wonder what parts of the brain get activated when listening to forgiveness.
    :D :D :D
    <iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/57PpA856AaE?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
     
    #57     Mar 18, 2013
  8. now, going into trust. Trust and believing :)) ) go together.
    Believing.

    <iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fDSoep_3pF0?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
     
    #58     Mar 22, 2013
  9. <iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iwKf62UQvgo?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

    :D :D :D
     
    #59     Mar 22, 2013
  10. <iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/O_Y7Qncdt_Y?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
     
    #60     Mar 22, 2013
Thread Status:
Not open for further replies.