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It’s insane just how much happens in our bodies every second. It’s seamless and flawless. Thousands on thousands of actions reactions all happening perfectly all at once so that we can simply breathe and move and type a comment.
I took college anatomy and physiology and I thought the same thing. The body is like the most amazing symphony in the way all the different parts work seamlessly with each other.
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About three years ago, my marriage ended abruptly. It was one of the most painful experiences I have ever gone through. I was looking for ways to ease the emotional pain and I found out about meditation. I started using the Waking Up App to meditate and I can assure you that meditation can be an incredibly powerful tool to disconnect yourself from your emotions. When you recognize that you are not what you are thinking or feeling and that in fact you are the space where the thinking and feeling is taking place. Somehow that recognition eased my psychological pain so much. Being able to see things from that perspective helped me tremendously to accept my reality.
Listening to your definition of meditation I'd say that knitting is a form of meditation. I am an avid knitter and when I pick up my knitting and concentrate on the repetitive pulling a string over a loop, over and over, for hours even, everything else leaves the mind and a deep relaxation comes over me.
Had some personal issues so I started reading up on Buddhism and meditation. To summarize: All emotional suffering comes from wishing things were different from what they are. (Four Noble Truths). People spend a great deal of time thinking about the past and wishing things are different from how they are. Meditation is the best tool to correct this. My meditation lasts only ten minutes. Stop thinking about "things". Easier said than done which is why meditation must be practiced somewhat frequently. When a thought comes to mind, immediately push it out. The goal is to sit and be aware of your surroundings, be in the present, not thinking about any one thing. If a thought comes up that may provide an answer to a current issue/problem you have, let your thoughts continue on that track. No matter what problems you have, while you are meditating and being aware second by second, nothing can harm you.
Om peace peace 🕉️. It is good for everyone to understand all the benefits that a few minutes of meditation every morning can benefit your life in a holistic way. Meditation means health in your body, your energy your mind and your intellect. Existence, Conscience and Bliss . Muchas gracias por compartir tu conocimiento tan generosamente. Thank you for cheering your knowledge in such generous way. Namaste .
I don't know that strong english guys but being a Hindu...I proud to our naturalistic literatures and Vedas, which gave us the knowledge to live a life of purity.
The beauty of meditation is that it can be anything you want it to be because each person has command of their own mental state, dream space, imagination or focused intention. You can never do it "wrong"... and for those seeking a Spiritual connection, it is said that Prayer is our communication TO a Higher Power and Meditation is our communication FROM a Higher Power! 💖
Your discussion of binaural beats makes perfect sense to me as a trumpet player. In music we use these to tune intervals. Depending on the interval being played, the relationship between two notes in a given overtone series will produce a third combination tone in a lower octave. So the two notes of a perfect fifth, when played exactly in tune, will produce a tone one octave lower than the lower note of the interval, or exactly half the frequency of the lower note. By listening for the combination tone and getting it to ring in tune, we have tuned the interval perfectly. Composers can make use of these acoustical relationships to create striking harmonies and chord progressions that make your hair stand up and even seem to affect your spiritual or emotional state.
The timing of this video is perfect!! since I recently started practicing mediation although I cannot stay consistent but when I'm in a meditative state I notice how I feel so present in the moment.
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:28 🤔 Meditation is the training of awareness and clearing the mind for emotional and mental stability. 03:33 🧠 Neural oscillations, or brain waves, are electrical patterns in the brain measured in hertz, with different frequencies associated with various states of consciousness. 05:21 🌿 AG1 is a comprehensive foundational nutritional supplement that can replace multiple other supplements, promoting overall health and gut health. 09:43 🌌 Delta brain waves are associated with deep sleep and have been observed in advanced meditators, potentially suggesting sleep-like benefits during meditation. 11:57 🤓 Theta waves are linked to relaxation, creativity, and focus, making them common in meditation, especially in more experienced meditators. 13:22 🧐 Alpha waves are associated with alertness and focus and are widely seen in meditators, aligning with the focus and awareness training in meditation. 14:42 😓 Beta waves, linked to wakefulness and analytical thought, may be reduced during meditation to promote emotional stability. 16:07 🧲 Gamma waves, associated with perception and experience, are rare in meditation but have been observed in experienced meditators during heightened awareness. Made with HARPA AI
I used to listen to binaural beats for pain relief while I slept. It worked. There are also binaural beats for increasing testosterone and male energy, increasing female energy, body cleansing, etc. Very interesting topic.
After putting it of for years I first tried meditation 3 years ago. So far I have tried different guided meditations. Some centered around breathing and awareness, some centered around affirmations, some "falling asleep" meditations wich I now do almost every night. With the breathing ones I have reached a trance like state pretty easily after just a few weeks of practice. A guided meditation centered around affirmations helped me with my needle phobia when getting the covid vaccines and I can count on my hands how often I heard the end of a falling asleep meditation. I have also noted some changes in my day to day life. I am able to focus better at work and get a hell of a lot done in a short amount of time if I need to. Also my boyfriend and I are in a long distance relationship. It takes me a 7,5 hour drive to visit him (if traffic is good). Usually I need 2-3 energy drinks for the drive to stay allert and focused. When I do a lot of meditation centered around breathing and self awareness I am able to drive all the way without a single energy drink.
@@tbd214 I didn't want to come across like your average crypto bro, excuse myself haha. But trust me, I've been down, deep down inside the rabbithole that is meditation and the mind and I think we're exactly on the same page here. This year I have endured a rigorous transformation back to myself after embracing health, yoga, meditation, mindfulness and calisthenics that followed because of a debilitating drug addiction. But that's solved now. So.. Thoroughly enjoying that honeymoon and spreading the word together with you! ✨
i am an avid user of EFT-tapping and its amazing how calm and at peace i feel after my session. i was introduced to mindfulness in DBT and i now use mindfulness in every part of my life to help with anger, grief, anxiety and other hard-to-handle feelings.
Meditation is the key reach brahaman or self knowledge and my experience was -- after immensely practicing meditation one day my mind and thoughts dropped. It's a good experience to understand brahaman and upanishad.
As a med student, I am always under a lot of pressure and stress, and meditation is one of the things that helps me release tension and feel better. I focus on my breathing and I use a few mudras to help my brain focus on specific aspects I want to introspect. I've seen that meditating really helps me to regulate my behavior and always mantain a serene attitude at school.
Many years ago, after I had been meditating daily for 16 years, a neurosurgeon gave me an EEG. He said that I had "quite a lot of theta in the front" and that he "had not come across it in his practice before" but that he "had read about it in the literature as something that had been observed in Tibetan monks" and that my theta levels were like theirs. The neurosurgeon asked me quite a lot of questions about various altered states of consciousness. I've been meditating daily now for 46 years and I go into much deeper states but I have not been tested again. I am also an Artist and a Classical musician, I heard that theta states are also sometimes associated with people who do both art and music.
Psilocybin saved my life. I was addicted to heroin for 15 years and after Psilocybin treatment I will be 3 years clean in September. I have zero cravings. This is something that truly needs to be more broadly used in addiction treatment.
The Trips I've been having have really helped me a lot,I finally feel in control of my emotions and my future and things that used to be mundane to me now seem incredible and full of nuance on top of that I'm way less driven by my ego and I have alot more empathy as well
i discovered meditation few months ago, and i can't express how much it helped me dealing with sress and lack of focus, i would reccomend everyone doing at least 5 minutes a day just to experience themselves the benefit of it🙏
Yes, I really agree with your opinion, that meditation is not about religion or philosophy, the point is that we are focused and in a state of full awareness, that is where life and strength are, mindfulness is the answer to all human problems in general, keep breathing and focus
I've never been big into meditation or breathing techniques until I recently learned about Heart-Rate Variability (HRV), and its connection to the autonomic nervous system. Tying that in with the fact that deep steady "Resonant Breathing" around 6 respirations per minute can allow you to "take back" your nervous system from fight-or-flight and I've really discovered something that works for me, personally.
For meditation to work, the brain must be at total peace. Doing other tasks does not count as meditation, though it is not a bad thing to do things such as knitting to truly heal the heart, but meditation is a skill by itself, complex and thorough to understand, but once grasped, the benefits are great.
Thank you for this very, very interesting video! 10 years ago I was in Thailand for a beginners course. It endured 3 weeks. The last 3 days the teacher-monk told me not to sleep. It was meant to lead me into deeper states of meditation without consciousness. As a psychotherapist I thought, it's not possible to not sleep for 3 days and nights... but, from the second night on, in sitting meditations, I fell "asleep" - in the lotus-position. And after waking up (after 10min sleep or so), I was highly refreshed, more than after a 'normal' sleep. After the reatreat I was full of energy. So, if I understood you right, my experience could be explained with the role of delta-waves. I would be happy, if you would make more videos about the effects of meditation. Greetings from switzerland, lilian
My experience with practicing TM, I learned to "walk on water". That's a metaphor for expressing grace when someone is trying to piss you off, like someone that you easily discern is a narcissistic psychopath and you just respond to them with endless passivity. If a situation doesn't work out as you planned, rather than feeling the negative of failure you immediately start looking for another opportunity, even if it means doing something completely different. However, I wish these guys could explain to me the moment when I was in meditation when I heard a loud pop sound in my head coupled with a bright flash at which in the peripherals there were violet squiggly lines that looked like lightening all around and the entire top of my head was tingling like crazy. I was so filled with that "elation" that I leaped up out of that lotus position, screaming that I understood everything at that moment. The scariest part though was that I lived on the top of a 15-story apartment building with a balcony, and for a brief moment, I felt like jumping over the railing. That was back in 2012.
@@revondamehovic3132 I suppose. (Same person here. In very vague speak, "I had to *switch* things.) Except for the warm fuzzy tingling feeling that seemed to encompass my whole head for a short while. And since then, I get a weird throbbing in the top middle of my head that extends down my forehead to right between my eyebrows and the bridge of my nose.
Try a CHOCOLATE meditation! Break up a thin chocolate bar into small squares between the size of your thumbnail and a postage stamp. Before putting it in your mouth, SMELL it. Can you tell what KIND it is (dark, milk, salted, caramel, white)? Place it on your tongue BUT DON'T BITE/CHEW. What temperature is it? Cold? Room temp? What TEXTURE does it have? Can you feel the embossed pattern or the thickness of the edges? What about the smell now? Has it changed? How? Feel it melt and soften. How is it spreading in your mouth, over your tongue, to your teeth, finally reaching the roof of your mouth. As it spreads, how does the flavor change? Saltier? Sweeter? More bitter? Did your saliva glands kick in and flood your mouth with wetness? Allow yourself to slowly swallow a little bit at a time. Observe the change in texture and taste. How long does it last before it's all gone. Now repeat with another piece. You'll be astounded at the difference in your perception of the temperature and texture of the second piece. This meditation is HYPER focusing. You'll forget all about outside sounds, tho you may be aware of the wet, smacking sounds of the chocolate as your tongue moves it around your mouth. Your monkey mind will settle down. Your emotions will mellow out. You'll be less aware of other body sensations or pains. I highly recommend it.
i think it's just use a lot of time and ressources from the medical system (if it was public). If you go to a private clinic, you sure can pay for it and have the service.
I do something called wake-initiated lucid dreaming, where you relax your mind and body enough to fall asleep but stay conscious during the process. The goal is to let your mind wander and ultimately shut down for sleep, but retain just a modicum of awareness to hang onto so you can avoid going fully unconscious. Then you just sit or stand up, and you're in a dream.I am so interested in seeing what happens to the brain during it.
I started meditating 3years ago and it completely changed my life for the better! Highly recommended! Wonderfully informative video! Thank you so much! 🙏🧘♀️☮💘
Great video. What I would like to see from scientists would be a map: - which wave - in which region - with which meditation techniques can be stimulated - to achieve a certain effect E.g.: If you want to get into a good mood before a party, you can do „fire of breath breathing“ listen to this frequency and your body and brain will get into this state.
0:14: 💡 This video discusses how meditation can influence the brain and the entire human body. 2:42: 🧠 An EEG can measure voltage fluctuations in different layers of the brain, including the thalamus, and detect synchronized groups of neurons firing in rhythmic patterns known as brain waves. 5:43: 💪 AG1 is a comprehensive supplement that can replace multiple daily supplements, supports gut health, and provides effortless daily nutrition. 8:33: 🧠 The video discusses the observation of non-REM and REM delta waves in specific regions of the brain during sleep and meditation. 11:26: ! The video discusses different brain waves and their association with executive functions, alertness, and processing incoming stimuli. 14:28: 🧠 Different brain waves have different frequencies and are associated with various mental states. 17:31: 🧠 The video discusses binaural beats and their potential to induce a meditative state, but acknowledges the lack of scientific evidence supporting their effectiveness. Recap by Tammy AI
Meditation is like a super power. I recommend everyone try a 10 day vipassana silence retreat. It's free in almost every country and you learn how to master your mind and emotions.
I have a terrible therapist. I don't know how to find a good therapist. I've had different therapists on-and-off for about 30 years. None of them good. All of them useless. My soul is raped. I'm dying of pain. I need help.
The method of finding calmness and peace in life is by: ✅️giving up attachment to things of the world. The first step is to think realistically. Guarding the senses is learning to stop reacting to pleasant and unpleasant circumstances with desire and aversion. Exercising control in our eating habits and overcoming laziness are necessary to maintain the practice of focusing attention on right things and thereby clearing the thoughts of emotional attachments.
Not a bad definition. Meditation is the practice of perceiving with the consciousness fully engaged or cognizant. This means concentration and self-awareness combined. The purpose is to develop concentration, cultivate high frequency emotions like loving kindness and compassion, and or obtain intuitive insight.
Magnífico video, me alegro muchísimo que los muchachos de IAH hayan dado espacio para entender aspectos de la meditación. En mi caso la descubrí para tratar episodios depresivos exógenos empleando la meditación W. Hof que realmente es efectiva. Gracias por compartir 🎉❤
Meditation: when the 'atman' (true self) awakens enough to use its 'will power' to profoundly stop the thought & concept forming function of mind. Can be done while body is sitting or any activity. Mind nit fluxuating is called: samadhi sama dhii evenness of intelligence
Right when I closed my eyes and focused on the image of the apple, the video cut away for a commercial for Reece's Peanut Butter Cups. Luckily, as an experienced meditator and yoga practitioner, I just laughed.
Point of clarification: alpha is not considered a posterior dominant rhythm... The posterior dominant rhythm that occurs when you close your eyes (the idling of your visual cortex When your eyes are closed but you're not asleep) is in the alpha range. But alpha is as you mentioned found throughout the brain. It just so happens that in an adult brain there is a gradient of speed that is maintained as long as the brain is healthy. So you do tend towards the alpha band as you move backwards. But there are other phenomena in the alpha range that are occurring elsewhere. You can also have slower (theta range) activity in the occipital lobe That is normative for children. It is colloquially still called the PDR But technically doesn't meet the criteria for it because it's too slow and is a different phenomenon.
I just want to shout out to IHA and commend the fantastic work you are doing in bringing seemingly obscure knowledge to non scientists in an accessible manner. One point of caution to meditators though. While it’s useful to know these different scientific explanations, it is important to keep in mind that these are the second person view of a first person experience. As a meditator we have the capacity to have experience (I.e. consciousness) and we have varying experiences (I.e. mental activity). To a scientist this appears as brain waves on an EEG or a FMRI. Both are valid, but the distinction needs to be made. It’s important not to sit down to meditate and then tell yourself “now my thetha waves are likely to begin”. That very analytical approach prevents you from meditating! Nonetheless, thanks for the video! Great job!
I'll patiently be waiting for a video on Binaural Beats! I've been into it since maybe 2004. I even decided to study sound and physics to understand and manipulate waves. I studied software to produce sound and studied music. And I'm still fascinated by Binaural Beats. Around 2008 I was manipulating waves using synths with audacity software and had a burst of a wave that knocked me down to the floor... oh well... Great video btw!
@@carolynforest8301 I truly don't remember, the shock was from starting in a very low frequency and fast moving to a very high one and the high pitch made me go crazy
This was such an incredible video bringing the science behind meditation, but actually visually expressing its impacts- often something we can only speculate for ourselves, as we can't look at the changes in our physiology without heading to a hospital or x-ray/scanning practice. Side note.. to blow one's mind open!!! I am sure you've seen those memes that question if we are living in the brain of a being that is our universe- with the map of the universe looking rather similar to the interior of the brain- energetically speaking... well I remember watching a documentary on Gamma Ray Bursts in the universe. These were extremely rare events during the beginning of the universe where, yes huge bursts of Gamma rays would happen randomly throughout the universe. It got me thinking when you spoke of Gamma Ray bursts within our mind at peak periods, it got me thinking... What if we are part of a being of some description (as funny as it may sound) and the Gamma Ray bursts within are observed outwardly. As above, so below... After all, there are some uncanny correlations between patterns and activity within the body and that of the Earth and beyond- The Universe. So I'll leave it there... thank you for stimulating my mind, and also bringing much peace to my mind around meditation, something I've practised for over a decade. So grateful you did this video! It made my day!!!
isochronic tones are great too! for adhd and it helps me reduce pain meds, since the waves help with psychosomatic pain, but not with actl organic injury pain. I highly recommend jason lewis channel :)
The brain is an entire galaxy of unknowns and indeterminates. I love learning more about it. But it is a very difficult thing to study in quantitative ways. So if you hear someone speaking in absolutes, remember to take it with a grain of salt.
Please oh please do binaural beats video. Interesting to hear about especially someone who studied more. I messed around with older open source sound apps. Set tone around approx 143 on one side and single digit # on other side. Dropped me to ground.
Loved this video and looking forward to more! If you do a binaural beats video, can you also touch upon sound bath meditations, singing bowls, sound healing? Much appreciated! 🙏💕
What does Brain taste like when: raw, rare, boiled, deep fried, baked (med rare, medium, well-done, etc)? Also, what's the most delicious part of the brain e.g., hypothalamus???
OMG, THANK YOU so much for this video! It’s gonna be so useful for the final study I am working on my university. It clarified and organized so many informations, thank you!!!!!
@@Tahra555 That's exactly the opposite of what people typically mean with meditation: mindfulness/vipassana. Being lost in a task doesn't help you to develop awareness of the mind. Otherwise dogs would all be enlightened. This misconception is also why he thinjs he hasn't been "successful" at meditation, which only makes sense if you think you're trying to conjure some blissed out state as if you had just ran a marathon.
@MrCmon113 it depends on what you're thinking about while being "lost in a task" if you're focusing on awareness of the mind, then boom...mindfulness meditation😂 maybe it's easier for me because I can get into a meditative state easily. Basically I think people should just lay down and relax and do what works for them.
It clicked for me one night when I felt like I was trying and failing to meditate: getting distracted and refocusing isn't failing at meditation. That IS the meditation. If you're refocusing, you're doing meditation right.
first of all I thank you a lot for this explanation. I'm also trying to concentrate my mind on my own body and to see as it is. thus I was able to stop running thoughts and focus on the body. some joy appeared and relaxation occurred. according to your perspective what kind of development have I achieved sir.
What type of meditation, do you know Dzogchen meditation? What is the difference between meditation and contemplation? What does your internal dialogue look like during this ? Do You know how to induce the theta state and the rest and most importantly, how to remain conscious in all brain modes?
Lincoln Gergar did scientific experiments about meditation recently. He’s a long time meditator and has a lot to share on that subject. His channel is channelhigherself
Idk if I'm the only one who expected a actuall explanation of the effects of meditation in the brain like in the other videos. This was just "what frequencies are in the brain during meditation" and not actually the effect it has like, having a monk meditating in one of those machines and actually seeing what's going on, how hthe brain is working etc.
"Limiting a type of wave" in meditation sounds absolutely ludicrous because as far as i know meditation it is about watching and not controlling. Even if that would be "anxiety beta waves."
It depends on your goal. Not all meditative practices are about "watching". Vipassanā, Transcendental Meditation, Yoga Meditation, and more have different objectives and methods to achieve them
@@theanatomylab If you are going to dive deeper into the effects of specific practices, I would be interested in what you can find about shikantaza. I have been slacking.
Love this! I haven’t experienced much with meditation yet but am definitely interested. I take a yoga class during the week and I have noticed an increase in the effectiveness of breathing techniques for anxiety. Thank you for this concise and informative video.
Unfortunately this video did not tie everything together well. Different types of waves were explained and all were said to occur in a meditative state. I think a lot of people have the question- what are the differences between awake state, meditative state, and sleep state? How does achieving a meditative state change your brain? I understand the research is not there yet, but this is more of a brain wave video loosely tied to the idea of meditation.
Thanks for the feedback. Although, I do have to gently push back on your points… The differences between an awake, meditative, and sleep state were indeed discussed, and multiple times at that. It’s important to note that the reason it wasn’t presented as “this is the meditative state, awake state, or sleep state”, is because that’s not how the brain works. Instead, the brain moves in an out of these states at the individual neuron level, local level, and even global level. The reason changes to the brain wasn’t discussed is because that’s a conversation for the MRI, fMRI, PET scan companion video. Your feedback is noted though, because both those points could have been made more clear in the video. All the best
Musician, Rita Karpati says, "Listen with a good set of headphones for a free binaural massage." (I don't know where these fit in with the binaural beats, but I've tried it with bad headphones, and found it does things to me, so can recommend the song myself.) Well it's a "piece", because a song has to have lyrics, and this doesn't. It's by the band now called *Spratley's Rats* , and was written by a Doctor, called *Tim Smith* . (So by Doc Smith, then.) Not a medical doctor, but one _honoris causa_ , awarded by the Royal Conservatoire in Edinburgh. He did spend the last 12 years of his life in a horrible medical condition, post stroke, which made his skin feel like a "net of electricity" all the time. But that's not relevant to the issue of what kind of doctor he was. I suppose as far as *Cabinet* (this piece) goes, he would've been operating as a kind of secular shaman, or something. Most of his music was to help you with your need to do mischief, not the need to dreamboat along, all alert, into smoother flowing spaces, as is the case, here. It also has lots of chimes in. A lot of his music does. Little things tinkling and chirruping quietly in the background, and down below, or in the branches above. Anyway, here: th-cam.com/video/e8ijgkh-nwA/w-d-xo.html (Oh, as far as the original name of the band goes, it was meant to sound like one of those old sweets they used to sell in big bottles in dark shops - a kind of naive thing, for what reason, I forget. Then someone pointed out that it was possible for someone to feel hurt by it, so they changed it. This was after they'd released most of their albums. Jo Spratley was Tim's girlfriend. The drummer was apparently a concert pianist for a day job. Quite a snazzy band, then. Orchestra members and future honorary doctors of music on staff, ready to resuscitate the listener.)
Dude... You are on a path, that speaks to so many of us. I so enjoy learning from your personal passion for understanding the human body. Can I call you Frank? Thank you
Since Hertz was mention can you do a vid on the effect of ASMR? Sections of the Brain, what gives us the tingle ticklish massage feeling in our pours, sections of our bodies?
Yes, but also no. Brain waves are just one way to measure brain activity. As stated in the video, there's several other neuroimaging techniques such as MRI, fMRI, and PET Scans. When you combine neuroimaging data, pathological data, psychological data, biochemical data, and plenty of other sources of data, we know a tremendous amount about the brain. However, we still have substantially more to learn.
@@theanatomylab all of which are realy just capturing the secondary effects of brain activity. We still have no answers to basic questions about how brain works. Like how exactly is memory stored. How exactly feelings form. Or what is conciousness.
It's very true that consciousness is still poorly understood, which has moved from an abstract problem to a real world problem with recent developments in AI (i.e., how will we know when a system is conscious if we don't understand consciousness). Still, it's important to understand that everything in biology breaks down when you get to the hyper-granular level. Everything. At the most basic of levels, we don't don't know how skeletal muscles contract, how embryos develop step-by-step, how individual hormone saturation should relate to overall levels, and plenty, plenty more. Biology is orders of magnitude more complex than chemistry and physics, which is both exciting and at times tiring. Again, your statements are 100% correct, but it's not as though we're drowning in ignorance either.
@@theanatomylab oh, not the ignorance! I hope my original comment was not missinterpreted as in a no way it was refering to the effort or quality of your video. I love everything you do here. Your videos are rare gems on yt I would say. It's just that science is far from figuring out the mysteries of our existance. When you mention AI, for example, I'd argue that it is nowhere near to becoming concious, not in a 100 years to come. Kinda disapointed in progress if you will.
No misinterpretation on my end - thank you for the kind words! My point with AI is simply that the goalposts keep shifting out of necessity. For instance, the Turing Test no longer applies since Chat Bots can easily pass with no signs of actual intelligence. AGI is a term with so many definitions these days, it’s really a matter of opinion as to what it is and when we’ll achieve it. The problem, as I see it, is our understanding of consciousness, and what a system requires for it to be considered conscious. Our ignorance around consciousness has become a legitimate issue, and not just one debated by philosophers. Until we understand it, AI consciousness will merely be a guessing game based on measuring sticks that we understand, namely ourselves and other mammals such as dolphins. However, if you remove consciousness from the problem, our understanding of the brain is actually rather robust. Neuroimaging techniques have improved dramatically, as has our understanding of neural nets and overall neuroscience. A neuroscience textbook from today would appear as witchcraft to a scientist from the 1960’s. My point is really a simple one - we know a lot about the human brain, but the thing in which we know very little to nothing about could be the most important aspect to understand, and also require a massive amount unseen understanding. If we discover that consciousness is somehow easier to achieve than we expect, perhaps we’ll look back and find rudimentary consciousness existing in data centers today. Or, it could be as you believe, and consciousness is far, far away regarding synthesis. Until we know more though, it’s really just a guessing game based on our biases. I apologize for the lengthy response. This happens to be on my mind a lot lately. I don’t disagree with your statements, I just wanted to add a bit of perspective to them. All the best, - Justin
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It’s insane just how much happens in our bodies every second. It’s seamless and flawless. Thousands on thousands of actions reactions all happening perfectly all at once so that we can simply breathe and move and type a comment.
It’s crazy to think of how god created each of our bodies so perfectly mechanized so that everything has many purposes helping us live
evolution made our bodies, this is well known fact.@@haifaalawadhi1605
I took college anatomy and physiology and I thought the same thing. The body is like the most amazing symphony in the way all the different parts work seamlessly with each other.
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About three years ago, my marriage ended abruptly. It was one of the most painful experiences I have ever gone through. I was looking for ways to ease the emotional pain and I found out about meditation. I started using the Waking Up App to meditate and I can assure you that meditation can be an incredibly powerful tool to disconnect yourself from your emotions. When you recognize that you are not what you are thinking or feeling and that in fact you are the space where the thinking and feeling is taking place. Somehow that recognition eased my psychological pain so much. Being able to see things from that perspective helped me tremendously to accept my reality.
Thank you so much for sharing, friend. Have a lovely rest-of-the-week. ✨🌻✨
Wonderful. Our prayers with you.
You are the Atma not the Body. This is the real secret.
Listening to your definition of meditation I'd say that knitting is a form of meditation. I am an avid knitter and when I pick up my knitting and concentrate on the repetitive pulling a string over a loop, over and over, for hours even, everything else leaves the mind and a deep relaxation comes over me.
Playing guitar is the same for me!
idk.
Playing guitar for sure.
Crochet definitely is meditative to me.
Yes you're right
Had some personal issues so I started reading up on Buddhism and meditation.
To summarize: All emotional suffering comes from wishing things were different from what they are. (Four Noble Truths).
People spend a great deal of time thinking about the past and wishing things are different from how they are.
Meditation is the best tool to correct this. My meditation lasts only ten minutes. Stop thinking about "things". Easier said than done which is why meditation must be practiced somewhat frequently. When a thought comes to mind, immediately push it out. The goal is to sit and be aware of your surroundings, be in the present, not thinking about any one thing.
If a thought comes up that may provide an answer to a current issue/problem you have, let your thoughts continue on that track.
No matter what problems you have, while you are meditating and being aware second by second, nothing can harm you.
If you include a chanting then mind is consumed by one word/thought and eases out in decluttering the mind.
Om peace peace 🕉️. It is good for everyone to understand all the benefits that a few minutes of meditation every morning can benefit your life in a holistic way. Meditation means health in your body, your energy your mind and your intellect. Existence, Conscience and Bliss . Muchas gracias por compartir tu conocimiento tan generosamente. Thank you for cheering your knowledge in such generous way. Namaste .
You're very welcome!
I don't know that strong english guys but being a Hindu...I proud to our naturalistic literatures and Vedas, which gave us the knowledge to live a life of purity.
Bien! He decidido hacer meditación desde hoy para que pueda observar efectos por la meditación en el cerebro...hare Krishna
The beauty of meditation is that it can be anything you want it to be because each person has command of their own mental state, dream space, imagination or focused intention. You can never do it "wrong"... and for those seeking a Spiritual connection, it is said that Prayer is our communication TO a Higher Power and Meditation is our communication FROM a Higher Power! 💖
Underrated
Your discussion of binaural beats makes perfect sense to me as a trumpet player. In music we use these to tune intervals. Depending on the interval being played, the relationship between two notes in a given overtone series will produce a third combination tone in a lower octave. So the two notes of a perfect fifth, when played exactly in tune, will produce a tone one octave lower than the lower note of the interval, or exactly half the frequency of the lower note. By listening for the combination tone and getting it to ring in tune, we have tuned the interval perfectly. Composers can make use of these acoustical relationships to create striking harmonies and chord progressions that make your hair stand up and even seem to affect your spiritual or emotional state.
That’s amazing, the chills people from music is just indescribable
The timing of this video is perfect!! since I recently started practicing mediation although I cannot stay consistent but when I'm in a meditative state I notice how I feel so present in the moment.
Consistency can be tough, but it’s great to see you’re making progress and effort!
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:28 🤔 Meditation is the training of awareness and clearing the mind for emotional and mental stability.
03:33 🧠 Neural oscillations, or brain waves, are electrical patterns in the brain measured in hertz, with different frequencies associated with various states of consciousness.
05:21 🌿 AG1 is a comprehensive foundational nutritional supplement that can replace multiple other supplements, promoting overall health and gut health.
09:43 🌌 Delta brain waves are associated with deep sleep and have been observed in advanced meditators, potentially suggesting sleep-like benefits during meditation.
11:57 🤓 Theta waves are linked to relaxation, creativity, and focus, making them common in meditation, especially in more experienced meditators.
13:22 🧐 Alpha waves are associated with alertness and focus and are widely seen in meditators, aligning with the focus and awareness training in meditation.
14:42 😓 Beta waves, linked to wakefulness and analytical thought, may be reduced during meditation to promote emotional stability.
16:07 🧲 Gamma waves, associated with perception and experience, are rare in meditation but have been observed in experienced meditators during heightened awareness.
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I used to listen to binaural beats for pain relief while I slept. It worked. There are also binaural beats for increasing testosterone and male energy, increasing female energy, body cleansing, etc. Very interesting topic.
You can literally just supplement testosterone.
After putting it of for years I first tried meditation 3 years ago. So far I have tried different guided meditations. Some centered around breathing and awareness, some centered around affirmations, some "falling asleep" meditations wich I now do almost every night. With the breathing ones I have reached a trance like state pretty easily after just a few weeks of practice. A guided meditation centered around affirmations helped me with my needle phobia when getting the covid vaccines and I can count on my hands how often I heard the end of a falling asleep meditation.
I have also noted some changes in my day to day life. I am able to focus better at work and get a hell of a lot done in a short amount of time if I need to. Also my boyfriend and I are in a long distance relationship. It takes me a 7,5 hour drive to visit him (if traffic is good). Usually I need 2-3 energy drinks for the drive to stay allert and focused. When I do a lot of meditation centered around breathing and self awareness I am able to drive all the way without a single energy drink.
That's phenomenal!
dawg you live such an interesting life
Great find and a great look into an absolute realisation of leveling up yourself!
@@tbd214 I concur, where did i say that it wasn't what u stated? I am very aware of what meditation means to me and humanity.😘
@@tbd214 I didn't want to come across like your average crypto bro, excuse myself haha. But trust me, I've been down, deep down inside the rabbithole that is meditation and the mind and I think we're exactly on the same page here. This year I have endured a rigorous transformation back to myself after embracing health, yoga, meditation, mindfulness and calisthenics that followed because of a debilitating drug addiction. But that's solved now. So.. Thoroughly enjoying that honeymoon and spreading the word together with you! ✨
i am an avid user of EFT-tapping and its amazing how calm and at peace i feel after my session. i was introduced to mindfulness in DBT and i now use mindfulness in every part of my life to help with anger, grief, anxiety and other hard-to-handle feelings.
Meditation is the key reach brahaman or self knowledge and my experience was -- after immensely practicing meditation one day my mind and thoughts dropped. It's a good experience to understand brahaman and upanishad.
As a med student, I am always under a lot of pressure and stress, and meditation is one of the things that helps me release tension and feel better. I focus on my breathing and I use a few mudras to help my brain focus on specific aspects I want to introspect. I've seen that meditating really helps me to regulate my behavior and always mantain a serene attitude at school.
Many years ago, after I had been meditating daily for 16 years, a neurosurgeon gave me an EEG. He said that I had "quite a lot of theta in the front" and that he "had not come across it in his practice before" but that he "had read about it in the literature as something that had been observed in Tibetan monks" and that my theta levels were like theirs. The neurosurgeon asked me quite a lot of questions about various altered states of consciousness. I've been meditating daily now for 46 years and I go into much deeper states but I have not been tested again. I am also an Artist and a Classical musician, I heard that theta states are also sometimes associated with people who do both art and music.
I am a first year nursing student, and I find these videos very helpful for general facts and for study guides as well
For all our fellow medicine students we have references on our video description! Make sure to check them out!
Psilocybin saved my life. I was addicted to heroin for 15 years and after Psilocybin treatment I will be 3 years clean in September. I have zero cravings. This is something that truly needs to be more broadly used in addiction treatment.
The Trips I've been having have really helped me a lot,I finally feel in control of my emotions and my future and things that used to be mundane to me now seem incredible and full of nuance on top of that I'm way less driven by my ego and I have alot more empathy as well
i discovered meditation few months ago, and i can't express how much it helped me dealing with sress and lack of focus, i would reccomend everyone doing at least 5 minutes a day just to experience themselves the benefit of it🙏
I just started a mindfulness mentor training today. I’m so excited. Meditation has changed my life!!
Yes, I really agree with your opinion, that meditation is not about religion or philosophy, the point is that we are focused and in a state of full awareness, that is where life and strength are, mindfulness is the answer to all human problems in general, keep breathing and focus
I've never been big into meditation or breathing techniques until I recently learned about Heart-Rate Variability (HRV), and its connection to the autonomic nervous system. Tying that in with the fact that deep steady "Resonant Breathing" around 6 respirations per minute can allow you to "take back" your nervous system from fight-or-flight and I've really discovered something that works for me, personally.
Well-said. Can you elaborate -specifically- on your breathing technique?
For meditation to work, the brain must be at total peace. Doing other tasks does not count as meditation, though it is not a bad thing to do things such as knitting to truly heal the heart, but meditation is a skill by itself, complex and thorough to understand, but once grasped, the benefits are great.
Raw foods, always...
No meat tho...😂
It's about connecting to the self, not God. However, the clarity it gives you the more you do it, will absolutely bring you closer to Him.
Thank you for this very, very interesting video! 10 years ago I was in Thailand for a beginners course. It endured 3 weeks. The last 3 days the teacher-monk told me not to sleep. It was meant to lead me into deeper states of meditation without consciousness. As a psychotherapist I thought, it's not possible to not sleep for 3 days and nights... but, from the second night on, in sitting meditations, I fell "asleep" - in the lotus-position. And after waking up (after 10min sleep or so), I was highly refreshed, more than after a 'normal' sleep. After the reatreat I was full of energy.
So, if I understood you right, my experience could be explained with the role of delta-waves.
I would be happy, if you would make more videos about the effects of meditation. Greetings from switzerland, lilian
One of the best!!! I learned to meditate years ago and find what's happening in the brain when one does this is astounding.
My experience with practicing TM, I learned to "walk on water".
That's a metaphor for expressing grace when someone is trying to piss you off, like someone that you easily discern is a narcissistic psychopath and you just respond to them with endless passivity. If a situation doesn't work out as you planned, rather than feeling the negative of failure you immediately start looking for another opportunity, even if it means doing something completely different.
However, I wish these guys could explain to me the moment when I was in meditation when I heard a loud pop sound in my head coupled with a bright flash at which in the peripherals there were violet squiggly lines that looked like lightening all around and the entire top of my head was tingling like crazy. I was so filled with that "elation" that I leaped up out of that lotus position, screaming that I understood everything at that moment. The scariest part though was that I lived on the top of a 15-story apartment building with a balcony, and for a brief moment, I felt like jumping over the railing. That was back in 2012.
Was it similar to exploding head syndrome?
@@revondamehovic3132 I suppose. (Same person here. In very vague speak, "I had to *switch* things.)
Except for the warm fuzzy tingling feeling that seemed to encompass my whole head for a short while.
And since then, I get a weird throbbing in the top middle of my head that extends down my forehead to right between my eyebrows and the bridge of my nose.
Try a CHOCOLATE meditation!
Break up a thin chocolate bar into small squares between the size of your thumbnail and a postage stamp.
Before putting it in your mouth, SMELL it. Can you tell what KIND it is (dark, milk, salted, caramel, white)?
Place it on your tongue BUT DON'T BITE/CHEW. What temperature is it? Cold? Room temp?
What TEXTURE does it have? Can you feel the embossed pattern or the thickness of the edges?
What about the smell now? Has it changed? How?
Feel it melt and soften. How is it spreading in your mouth, over your tongue, to your teeth, finally reaching the roof of your mouth.
As it spreads, how does the flavor change? Saltier? Sweeter? More bitter?
Did your saliva glands kick in and flood your mouth with wetness?
Allow yourself to slowly swallow a little bit at a time. Observe the change in texture and taste. How long does it last before it's all gone.
Now repeat with another piece. You'll be astounded at the difference in your perception of the temperature and texture of the second piece.
This meditation is HYPER focusing. You'll forget all about outside sounds, tho you may be aware of the wet, smacking sounds of the chocolate as your tongue moves it around your mouth.
Your monkey mind will settle down. Your emotions will mellow out. You'll be less aware of other body sensations or pains.
I highly recommend it.
🤔 Very intersting! Thanks for sharing!
This was really fascinating. I once asked my doctor if I could have an EEG just out of curiosity. She burst out laughing and said no. ☹
What a spoil sport!
i think it's just use a lot of time and ressources from the medical system (if it was public). If you go to a private clinic, you sure can pay for it and have the service.
Meditation as training awareness I think is a great definition.
I do something called wake-initiated lucid dreaming, where you relax your mind and body enough to fall asleep but stay conscious during the process. The goal is to let your mind wander and ultimately shut down for sleep, but retain just a modicum of awareness to hang onto so you can avoid going fully unconscious. Then you just sit or stand up, and you're in a dream.I am so interested in seeing what happens to the brain during it.
I started meditating 3years ago and it completely changed my life for the better! Highly recommended! Wonderfully informative video! Thank you so much! 🙏🧘♀️☮💘
Great video. What I would like to see from scientists would be a map:
- which wave
- in which region
- with which meditation techniques can be stimulated
- to achieve a certain effect
E.g.:
If you want to get into a good mood before a party, you can do „fire of breath breathing“ listen to this frequency and your body and brain will get into this state.
Meditation & mindfulness are a state of being...
0:14: 💡 This video discusses how meditation can influence the brain and the entire human body.
2:42: 🧠 An EEG can measure voltage fluctuations in different layers of the brain, including the thalamus, and detect synchronized groups of neurons firing in rhythmic patterns known as brain waves.
5:43: 💪 AG1 is a comprehensive supplement that can replace multiple daily supplements, supports gut health, and provides effortless daily nutrition.
8:33: 🧠 The video discusses the observation of non-REM and REM delta waves in specific regions of the brain during sleep and meditation.
11:26: ! The video discusses different brain waves and their association with executive functions, alertness, and processing incoming stimuli.
14:28: 🧠 Different brain waves have different frequencies and are associated with various mental states.
17:31: 🧠 The video discusses binaural beats and their potential to induce a meditative state, but acknowledges the lack of scientific evidence supporting their effectiveness.
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This recaps by AI suck lol.
Meditation is like a super power. I recommend everyone try a 10 day vipassana silence retreat. It's free in almost every country and you learn how to master your mind and emotions.
Meditation changed my life
I have a terrible therapist.
I don't know how to find a good therapist.
I've had different therapists on-and-off for about 30 years.
None of them good.
All of them useless.
My soul is raped.
I'm dying of pain.
I need help.
The method of finding calmness and peace in life is by:
✅️giving up attachment to things of the world.
The first step is to think realistically.
Guarding the senses is learning to stop reacting to pleasant and unpleasant circumstances with desire and aversion.
Exercising control in our eating habits and overcoming laziness are necessary to
maintain the practice of focusing attention on right things and thereby
clearing the thoughts of emotional attachments.
Not a bad definition. Meditation is the practice of perceiving with the consciousness fully engaged or cognizant. This means concentration and self-awareness combined. The purpose is to develop concentration, cultivate high frequency emotions like loving kindness and compassion, and or obtain intuitive insight.
It's amazing how world is adapting meditation
But some feels to be dominating only via hypertrophy.
Btw im an Indian and a medical student as well
I can tell I'm now a long-time subscriber of the channel because I'm eating dinner while watching this video
😂 Love to read that! Thanks for watching
Magnífico video, me alegro muchísimo que los muchachos de IAH hayan dado espacio para entender aspectos de la meditación.
En mi caso la descubrí para tratar episodios depresivos exógenos empleando la meditación W. Hof que realmente es efectiva.
Gracias por compartir 🎉❤
Meditation: when the 'atman' (true self) awakens enough to use its 'will power' to profoundly stop the thought & concept forming function of mind. Can be done while body is sitting or any activity. Mind nit fluxuating is called: samadhi
sama dhii evenness of intelligence
Right when I closed my eyes and focused on the image of the apple, the video cut away for a commercial for Reece's Peanut Butter Cups. Luckily, as an experienced meditator and yoga practitioner, I just laughed.
Yeah, I had the same experience. It cut away to an ad for something else.
Let it go, and return to my focus, the apple. 😊
Point of clarification: alpha is not considered a posterior dominant rhythm... The posterior dominant rhythm that occurs when you close your eyes (the idling of your visual cortex When your eyes are closed but you're not asleep) is in the alpha range. But alpha is as you mentioned found throughout the brain. It just so happens that in an adult brain there is a gradient of speed that is maintained as long as the brain is healthy. So you do tend towards the alpha band as you move backwards. But there are other phenomena in the alpha range that are occurring elsewhere. You can also have slower (theta range) activity in the occipital lobe That is normative for children. It is colloquially still called the PDR But technically doesn't meet the criteria for it because it's too slow and is a different phenomenon.
I meditate everyday. Thanks for this informative video💜🧡
I love your context. Brain info is my favorite. What a complex and fascinating organ!❤ I can't wait for part 2.
Thanks for watching!!
I just want to shout out to IHA and commend the fantastic work you are doing in bringing seemingly obscure knowledge to non scientists in an accessible manner.
One point of caution to meditators though. While it’s useful to know these different scientific explanations, it is important to keep in mind that these are the second person view of a first person experience. As a meditator we have the capacity to have experience (I.e. consciousness) and we have varying experiences (I.e. mental activity). To a scientist this appears as brain waves on an EEG or a FMRI. Both are valid, but the distinction needs to be made. It’s important not to sit down to meditate and then tell yourself “now my thetha waves are likely to begin”. That very analytical approach prevents you from meditating!
Nonetheless, thanks for the video! Great job!
From what I understand, there is no wrong way to meditate. Just the intent (and effort) of doing so…
Irony : A brain is trying to study a brain 🧠
I'll patiently be waiting for a video on Binaural Beats! I've been into it since maybe 2004. I even decided to study sound and physics to understand and manipulate waves. I studied software to produce sound and studied music. And I'm still fascinated by Binaural Beats. Around 2008 I was manipulating waves using synths with audacity software and had a burst of a wave that knocked me down to the floor... oh well... Great video btw!
What was the beat frequency you used?
@@carolynforest8301 I truly don't remember, the shock was from starting in a very low frequency and fast moving to a very high one and the high pitch made me go crazy
"It's gonna blow your mind."
Om shanti
This was such an incredible video bringing the science behind meditation, but actually visually expressing its impacts- often something we can only speculate for ourselves, as we can't look at the changes in our physiology without heading to a hospital or x-ray/scanning practice.
Side note.. to blow one's mind open!!! I am sure you've seen those memes that question if we are living in the brain of a being that is our universe- with the map of the universe looking rather similar to the interior of the brain- energetically speaking... well I remember watching a documentary on Gamma Ray Bursts in the universe. These were extremely rare events during the beginning of the universe where, yes huge bursts of Gamma rays would happen randomly throughout the universe. It got me thinking when you spoke of Gamma Ray bursts within our mind at peak periods, it got me thinking... What if we are part of a being of some description (as funny as it may sound) and the Gamma Ray bursts within are observed outwardly. As above, so below... After all, there are some uncanny correlations between patterns and activity within the body and that of the Earth and beyond- The Universe.
So I'll leave it there... thank you for stimulating my mind, and also bringing much peace to my mind around meditation, something I've practised for over a decade. So grateful you did this video! It made my day!!!
isochronic tones are great too! for adhd and it helps me reduce pain meds, since the waves help with psychosomatic pain, but not with actl organic injury pain. I highly recommend jason lewis channel :)
Interesting!
The brain is an entire galaxy of unknowns and indeterminates. I love learning more about it. But it is a very difficult thing to study in quantitative ways. So if you hear someone speaking in absolutes, remember to take it with a grain of salt.
Please oh please do binaural beats video. Interesting to hear about especially someone who studied more.
I messed around with older open source sound apps. Set tone around approx 143 on one side and single digit # on other side. Dropped me to ground.
Language is so limiting. I feel like we all experience meditation at some point, wether on accident or on purpose.
Loved this video and looking forward to more! If you do a binaural beats video, can you also touch upon sound bath meditations, singing bowls, sound healing? Much appreciated! 🙏💕
I just finished a mediation and this came up talk about reinforcement 😂
A video on the consequences and neural correlates of open awareness meditation specifically would be super interesting. Same with non-dual awareness.
What does Brain taste like when: raw, rare, boiled, deep fried, baked (med rare, medium, well-done, etc)? Also, what's the most delicious part of the brain e.g., hypothalamus???
OMG, THANK YOU so much for this video! It’s gonna be so useful for the final study I am working on my university. It clarified and organized so many informations, thank you!!!!!
Lots of things can work if you believe they do
I’ve tried a lot to “meditate”. I don’t feel like I’ve ever been successful. I wish I knew someone who could walk me thru it.
Doing repetitive things like washing dishes and folding laundry can put you into a meditative state
@@Tahra555
That's exactly the opposite of what people typically mean with meditation: mindfulness/vipassana.
Being lost in a task doesn't help you to develop awareness of the mind. Otherwise dogs would all be enlightened.
This misconception is also why he thinjs he hasn't been "successful" at meditation, which only makes sense if you think you're trying to conjure some blissed out state as if you had just ran a marathon.
@MrCmon113 it depends on what you're thinking about while being "lost in a task" if you're focusing on awareness of the mind, then boom...mindfulness meditation😂 maybe it's easier for me because I can get into a meditative state easily. Basically I think people should just lay down and relax and do what works for them.
It clicked for me one night when I felt like I was trying and failing to meditate: getting distracted and refocusing isn't failing at meditation. That IS the meditation. If you're refocusing, you're doing meditation right.
It would be interesting to see a similar video focused on the impact of hypnosis on the brain
I haven't seen the video yet hope it could make a positive impact in my life 😢
Jose Selva method is my favorite guided meditation.
Such an interesting video!! I’ve been wanting to get into meditation for a long time and you motivated me to get on it! Love your channel so much!
Gamma is an easy frequency to hit after enlightenment.
super super super! Thanks guys, you are one of the best!
Omg so cool! I ran to the comments when I saw that Osmosis imagery, I love them and this channel! Such an interesting video
first of all I thank you a lot for this explanation. I'm also trying to concentrate my mind on my own body and to see as it is. thus I was able to stop running thoughts and focus on the body. some joy appeared and relaxation occurred.
according to your perspective what kind of development have I achieved sir.
incredibly well explained
Thank you!
I totally forgot about bineural beats. Thanks for the reminder. Great video!
Love watching the channel, it's very helpful.
What type of meditation, do you know Dzogchen meditation?
What is the difference between meditation and contemplation?
What does your internal dialogue look like during this ?
Do You know how to induce the theta state and the rest
and most importantly, how to remain conscious in all brain modes?
Love how interesting and practical these videos are. Thanks for the good content!
Meditation is not something that you do. It is a way to be. #beinthenow
Lincoln Gergar did scientific experiments about meditation recently. He’s a long time meditator and has a lot to share on that subject.
His channel is channelhigherself
Idk if I'm the only one who expected a actuall explanation of the effects of meditation in the brain like in the other videos. This was just "what frequencies are in the brain during meditation" and not actually the effect it has like, having a monk meditating in one of those machines and actually seeing what's going on, how hthe brain is working etc.
"Limiting a type of wave" in meditation sounds absolutely ludicrous because as far as i know meditation it is about watching and not controlling. Even if that would be "anxiety beta waves."
It depends on your goal. Not all meditative practices are about "watching". Vipassanā, Transcendental Meditation, Yoga Meditation, and more have different objectives and methods to achieve them
@@theanatomylab If you are going to dive deeper into the effects of specific practices, I would be interested in what you can find about shikantaza.
I have been slacking.
Love this! I use hemi-sync binaural beats nightly for meditation and manifestation 🔥♥️🤙
Love this! I haven’t experienced much with meditation yet but am definitely interested. I take a yoga class during the week and I have noticed an increase in the effectiveness of breathing techniques for anxiety. Thank you for this concise and informative video.
I am from india thaks for your scientifical explanation 🙏🙏🙏
Unfortunately this video did not tie everything together well. Different types of waves were explained and all were said to occur in a meditative state. I think a lot of people have the question- what are the differences between awake state, meditative state, and sleep state? How does achieving a meditative state change your brain? I understand the research is not there yet, but this is more of a brain wave video loosely tied to the idea of meditation.
Not a bad video in any sense, but the title is quite misleading for what is discussed.
Thanks for the feedback. Although, I do have to gently push back on your points…
The differences between an awake, meditative, and sleep state were indeed discussed, and multiple times at that. It’s important to note that the reason it wasn’t presented as “this is the meditative state, awake state, or sleep state”, is because that’s not how the brain works. Instead, the brain moves in an out of these states at the individual neuron level, local level, and even global level.
The reason changes to the brain wasn’t discussed is because that’s a conversation for the MRI, fMRI, PET scan companion video.
Your feedback is noted though, because both those points could have been made more clear in the video.
All the best
@@theanatomylab 💜💜💜
I am coincidentally deep into meditation at this moment this is very helpful
Thank you thank you for doing this video. I am endlessly fascinated with what the brain can do. I would love more videos like this.
Thanks for watching! 🙌
Thank you.
Best meditation for me is cycling in nature far away from everything.
Musician, Rita Karpati says, "Listen with a good set of headphones for a free binaural massage." (I don't know where these fit in with the binaural beats, but I've tried it with bad headphones, and found it does things to me, so can recommend the song myself.)
Well it's a "piece", because a song has to have lyrics, and this doesn't. It's by the band now called *Spratley's Rats* , and was written by a Doctor, called *Tim Smith* . (So by Doc Smith, then.) Not a medical doctor, but one _honoris causa_ , awarded by the Royal Conservatoire in Edinburgh. He did spend the last 12 years of his life in a horrible medical condition, post stroke, which made his skin feel like a "net of electricity" all the time. But that's not relevant to the issue of what kind of doctor he was.
I suppose as far as *Cabinet* (this piece) goes, he would've been operating as a kind of secular shaman, or something. Most of his music was to help you with your need to do mischief, not the need to dreamboat along, all alert, into smoother flowing spaces, as is the case, here. It also has lots of chimes in. A lot of his music does. Little things tinkling and chirruping quietly in the background, and down below, or in the branches above.
Anyway, here: th-cam.com/video/e8ijgkh-nwA/w-d-xo.html
(Oh, as far as the original name of the band goes, it was meant to sound like one of those old sweets they used to sell in big bottles in dark shops - a kind of naive thing, for what reason, I forget. Then someone pointed out that it was possible for someone to feel hurt by it, so they changed it. This was after they'd released most of their albums. Jo Spratley was Tim's girlfriend. The drummer was apparently a concert pianist for a day job. Quite a snazzy band, then. Orchestra members and future honorary doctors of music on staff, ready to resuscitate the listener.)
Awesome video. I love to hear about the brain.
For sure! Thanks for watching
Dude... You are on a path, that speaks to so many of us. I so enjoy learning from your personal passion for understanding the human body.
Can I call you Frank?
Thank you
Since Hertz was mention can you do a vid on the effect of ASMR? Sections of the Brain, what gives us the tingle ticklish massage feeling in our pours, sections of our bodies?
Was doing your apple visualization exercise and then a midroll ad popped up right in the middle
Which nicely speaks about how little we understand the brain today. It's like trying to understand the car just by listening the sounds it makes.
Yes, but also no. Brain waves are just one way to measure brain activity. As stated in the video, there's several other neuroimaging techniques such as MRI, fMRI, and PET Scans.
When you combine neuroimaging data, pathological data, psychological data, biochemical data, and plenty of other sources of data, we know a tremendous amount about the brain.
However, we still have substantially more to learn.
@@theanatomylab all of which are realy just capturing the secondary effects of brain activity. We still have no answers to basic questions about how brain works. Like how exactly is memory stored. How exactly feelings form. Or what is conciousness.
It's very true that consciousness is still poorly understood, which has moved from an abstract problem to a real world problem with recent developments in AI (i.e., how will we know when a system is conscious if we don't understand consciousness).
Still, it's important to understand that everything in biology breaks down when you get to the hyper-granular level. Everything.
At the most basic of levels, we don't don't know how skeletal muscles contract, how embryos develop step-by-step, how individual hormone saturation should relate to overall levels, and plenty, plenty more.
Biology is orders of magnitude more complex than chemistry and physics, which is both exciting and at times tiring.
Again, your statements are 100% correct, but it's not as though we're drowning in ignorance either.
@@theanatomylab oh, not the ignorance! I hope my original comment was not missinterpreted as in a no way it was refering to the effort or quality of your video. I love everything you do here. Your videos are rare gems on yt I would say. It's just that science is far from figuring out the mysteries of our existance. When you mention AI, for example, I'd argue that it is nowhere near to becoming concious, not in a 100 years to come. Kinda disapointed in progress if you will.
No misinterpretation on my end - thank you for the kind words!
My point with AI is simply that the goalposts keep shifting out of necessity. For instance, the Turing Test no longer applies since Chat Bots can easily pass with no signs of actual intelligence.
AGI is a term with so many definitions these days, it’s really a matter of opinion as to what it is and when we’ll achieve it.
The problem, as I see it, is our understanding of consciousness, and what a system requires for it to be considered conscious. Our ignorance around consciousness has become a legitimate issue, and not just one debated by philosophers.
Until we understand it, AI consciousness will merely be a guessing game based on measuring sticks that we understand, namely ourselves and other mammals such as dolphins.
However, if you remove consciousness from the problem, our understanding of the brain is actually rather robust. Neuroimaging techniques have improved dramatically, as has our understanding of neural nets and overall neuroscience.
A neuroscience textbook from today would appear as witchcraft to a scientist from the 1960’s.
My point is really a simple one - we know a lot about the human brain, but the thing in which we know very little to nothing about could be the most important aspect to understand, and also require a massive amount unseen understanding.
If we discover that consciousness is somehow easier to achieve than we expect, perhaps we’ll look back and find rudimentary consciousness existing in data centers today.
Or, it could be as you believe, and consciousness is far, far away regarding synthesis.
Until we know more though, it’s really just a guessing game based on our biases.
I apologize for the lengthy response. This happens to be on my mind a lot lately. I don’t disagree with your statements, I just wanted to add a bit of perspective to them.
All the best,
- Justin
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You're welcome!
Salāh is always better.
I love that I'm eating an apple while watching! 😊
Now you can focus on two apples!
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