Science confirms spiritual traditions

  For centuries, yogis have been expressing the incredible benefits meditation can provide. More recently, meditation has become a more mainstream means of treating anxiety and stress, as deep breathing has been proven to calm the nervous system and reduce our heart rate. Avid meditators or individuals who practice…
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  Many ancient teachings tell us that humans have the capacity to gain extraordinary powers through various techniques. In his book titled Living with the Himalayan Masters, Swami Rama Wrote:“I had never before seen a man who could sit still without blinking his eyelids for eight to ten hours, but this yogi…
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  The Golden ratio is a special number found by dividing a line into two parts so that the longer part divided by the smaller part is also equal to the whole length divided by the longer part. It is often symbolized using φ (phi), after the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet. In an equation form, it looks…
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  Prof. Howard Wiseman, a physicist at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, along with his collaborators Dr. Michael Hall, also of Griffith University, and University of California, Davis mathematician Dr. Dirk-Andre Deckert, published their new “many interacting worlds” (MIW) theory in the journal…
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  Many people participate in practices such as meditation and yoga because they help us relax. At least those are the immediate effects we feel. But much more is happening on a molecular level, reveal researchers out of Coventry University in England. Published in the journal Frontiers in Immunology, this new…
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     We see the term “quantum” used more and more. We get an intuitive sense of what that means as some very small packets of energy that make up our universe. Let’s add some depth to that understanding.ChemistryOn a basic level, we and everything around us exhibit chemical properties.…
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    The one theorem that almost anyone who has ever studied Mathematics remembers is the Pythagoras’ theorem. It is the most well-known theorem for about 2,500 years now and has allowed the mankind to evolve in a myriad of ways. Its applications are limitless and range from construction to even…
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  An extremely rare condition may transform our understanding of memory.If you ask Jill Price to remember any day of her life, she can come up with an answer in a heartbeat. What was she doing on 29 of August 1980? “It was a Friday, I went to Palm Springs with my friends, twins, Nina and Michelle, and…
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  It’s called magneto-reception, and it refers to the ability to perceive magnetic fields. Several animals use it to find their way over long distances by aligning themselves with the Earth’s magnetic field. Sea turtles, honeybees, spiny lobsters, dolphins, migratory birds, and more all…
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As the value of meditation becomes widely recognized, researchers are increasingly trying to understand the differences among approaches. A study published in November 2016 in Brain and Cognition reports subjective experiences and cortical activation patterns that distinguish the Transcendental Meditation technique from…
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