Essays on Meditation

I. Introduction A. Rationale/Significance The objective of the proposed research is to determine if a daily meditation routine (100 minutes a day, everyday, for 8 weeks) can stimulate the growth of gray matter in the frontal lobe of the adolescent brain. Research has shown that a daily meditation practice can stimulate the growth of gray…

Meditation is a personal and spiritual practice aimed at redirecting awareness towards a positive mindset. The goal is to transform the state of mind by focusing inward and concentrating on the inner self. Generally, meditation consists of three stages: concentration (dharana), meditation (dhyana), and enlightenment or absorption (samadhi). In the beginning of a meditation session,…

Let us see the above two citations. In these, the words ‘ Gur ’ ‘ Moorat ’ and ‘ charan ’ have been used. It is a recognized fact that in every linguistic communication, one word can hold name significance and right significance of a word is known by analyzing the context in which it…

Meditation has been practiced for healing prpises since the early years of the human race. Its healing powers have long been unexplained, which is creating great curiosity about its seemingly miraculous effects on the human body and mind in the health field. Meditation first was rooted in the Buddhist tradition, but has time has gone…

Marcus Aurelius was Emperor of Rome from 161 until his death in 180. In The Meditations he wrote, in approximately 167 A.D., a series of instructions for his own guidance in his life both as a person and as a good Roman. These are a series of precepts or epigrams that form a treatise on…

Descartes’ First Meditation aims to highlight the unreliability of our perceptions and sensations. The main goal is to instill doubt in our senses. Descartes supports this idea with three main arguments: the dream argument, the deceiving God argument, and the evil demon “or evil genius” argument. According to Descartes’ dream argument, it is difficult to…

Writing a metacognition essay is fairly new to me and on top of that critically analyzing the way I think is something I never considered. If I had to decide on how I think, I would have to say I tend to visualize almost everything I hear and see. Every time I think I always…

In Marcus Aurelius’ book, Meditation, he advised for one to “Suit [themselves] to the estate in which [their] lot is cast. ” Fatalism, often associated with predestination, is the belief that every event including all actions we as humans partake in are caused by outside forces beyond our control. In One Hundred Years of Solitude,…

How can the use of hypnosis and meditation be beneficial to one’s health? Hypnosis using hypnotic induction, which consists of a long series of preliminary instructions and suggestions is actually a wakeful state of focused attention and heightened suggestibility, with diminished peripheral awareness. Meditation refers to training of the mind or self-inducing a mode of…