Scientific Insights
As much as my knowledge and beliefs are rooted in my spiritual upbringing, I am also a student of science (that led me to do a Ph.D is physics). After pursing scientific inquiry of the external world, I started looking for scientific evidence for those truths about the self mentioned in the scriptures of various spritual traditions. In this section, I intend to share with you the scientific insights on the workings of brain, on emotions, meditation etc that I have used to help my clients to innovate and transform their business. Do share with me your thoughts and questions.
January 14, 2005
The Power of Meditation
Washinton Post had an article on meditation (you have register at WP to read it). Here I am providing a summary of the article and my comments. Summary: Washington Post reports that long term meditation practice changes the brain more permanently and those changes show up as high frequency gamma waves and increased brain coordination. Dr. Richard Davidson, a professor at the university of Washington Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior found that the long term meditation practitioners "showed brain activation on a scale we have never seen before." It means that the brain is capable of changing and...Posted by pkaipa at 04:49 PM | Comments (178) | TrackBack
January 18, 2005
New Science of Happiness
Time magazine put out a special mind-body issue on the new science of happiness. It is dated January 17, 2005. You might want to get a copy of it and see the set of articles that they have put together. They are thought provoking. How you may ask and here are my reflections. Some of you might be familiar with the positive psychology movement that Dr. Martin Seligman has been driving forward for the past few years. He wrote a book on learned optimism a while ago and was quoted extensively by Daniel Goleman in his emotional intelligence books. In...Posted by pkaipa at 04:57 PM | Comments (176) | TrackBack