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Birds actually fly? (Archive in SR.)

Thanks, Misty.

Now we need a multimillion dollar study proving that birds actually fly.

Namaste`

Walt

> I thought this was interesting...
> Be Well,
> Misty
> http://www.searching-alternatives.com
>
> Meditation Shown to Light Up Brains of Buddhists
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> LONDON (Reuters) - Buddhists really are happy, calm and serene
> people -- at least according to their brain scans.
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> Using new scanning techniques, neuroscientists have discovered that
> certain areas of the brain light up constantly in Buddhists, which
> indicates positive emotions and good mood. This happens at times
> even when they are not meditating.
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> "We can now hypothesize with some confidence that those apparently
> happy, calm Buddhist souls one regularly comes across in places such
> as Dharamsala, India, really are happy," Professor Owen Flanagan, of
> Duke University in North Carolina, said Wednesday.
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> Dharamsala is the home base of exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama.
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> The scanning studies by scientists at the University of Wisconsin at
> Madison showed activity in the left prefrontal lobes of experienced
> Buddhist practitioners. The area is linked to positive emotions,
> self-control and temperament.
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> Other research by Paul Ekman, of the University of California San
> Francisco Medical Center, suggests that meditation and mindfulness
> can tame the amygdala, an area of the brain which is the hub of fear
> memory.
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> Ekman discovered that experienced Buddhists were less likely to be
> shocked, flustered, surprised or as angry as other people.
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> Flanagan believes that if the findings of the studies can be
> confirmed they could be of major importance.
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> "The most reasonable hypothesis is that there is something about
> conscientious Buddhist practice that results in the kind of
> happiness we all seek," Flanagan said in a report in New Scientist
> magazine.
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