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S Teebas, take it as a compliment. I agree I made a far too sweeping statement.



Bags not me who tries to find out :D

Bang on, Simon. That's EXACTLY what I'm talking about. Once your own performance becomes the focus, you start to handicap yourself. Affirmations, self-evaluation, and meditation are all good, but...

Well, our definitions differ. To me, meditation is a physical exercise that I perform to gain control the conscious mind, not about gaining extra senses or abilities of dubious veracity.

As I...

Undoubtedly this is true. But all of this is cerebral, rather than the visceral, mid-brain reaction that comes in the face of a threat to one's life. Hence my argument that meditation is not the...

I seem to remember a study which found that monks who meditated heavily either reacted (via physiological events) less acutely, or recovered to normal much more quickly, than the controls.

The...