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Belief is related to this http://www.tunedbody.com/scientists-finally-show-thoughts-can-cause-specific-molecular-changes-genes/ (http://www.tunedbody.com/scientists-finally-show-thoughts-can-cause-specific-molecular-changes-genes/)
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This "mindfulness" thing just seems to be a modern regurgitation of meditation in order to make more money. The only difference is that this mindfulness concept is about focusing on the present and not daydreaming about the past or future. At least I think I got that right?
As for me, the brainwave entrainment stuff I am doing is working well. The trouble is that there are multiple other gadgets such as "audiostrobe devices" etc. costing 500 euros plus if one wants to get a good one.
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This "mindfulness" thing just seems to be a modern regurgitation of meditation in order to make more money. The only difference is that this mindfulness concept is about focusing on the present and not daydreaming about the past or future. At least I think I got that right?
A better definition of mindfulness might replace the word daydreaming with worrying or brooding about the past or future. I'm mindful a lot; for me, it has nothing to do with meditation, which I do not practice. Over the years, I have learned two styles of meditation, both of which claimed to produce a mindful calmness after meditation sessions. I think it's possible to have that mindful calmness anyway, without sessions of meditation.
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Meditation is modern mans attempt to realign the highly evolved and precariously chaotic mind with the universal flux of energy which makes up existence. One can imagine a time when the meditative state came naturally and effortlessly, when our early ancestors would stop to ponder a problem, or look to the sky in wonderment.
It is my belief that the inherent instinct of mindful meditation built into our evolved frontal cortex was reconditioned and suppressed in modern man, because it was at odds with the establishment of the stratified hierarchies of the emergence of empire. Imagine keeping standing armies if you have large numbers of people quietly contemplating the mysteries of existence, and developing their own minds in a way that would liberate them from the imposition of the social structures of their time.
In all modern societies mindfulness meditation has been discouraged from the top down.
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkroll/2015/10/07/chemistry-nobel-prize-explains-why-we-dont-have-tumors-hanging-off-us-all-the-time/ (http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkroll/2015/10/07/chemistry-nobel-prize-explains-why-we-dont-have-tumors-hanging-off-us-all-the-time/)
Perhaps the new science is beginning to shed light on the nature of aging and on how to regenerate at a DNA level.
This research is revolutionary in the way it proves that there are mechanisms at work which repair and rejuvenate damaged DNA in bacteria. They have yet to take the next step and see how through DNA transference, the DNA repair sequences in our gut bacteria could indeed transfer into our own DNA, giving people whom harbor the most vigorous and resilient strains of rejuvenating bacteria an advantage when it comes to longevity.
The bacteria in our skin which are exposed to UV light and excrete vitamin D and other growth factors, also possess these DNA sequences responsible for repairing DNA damaged by UV radiation.
I will take this thought train even further and postulate that perhaps the genetic sequences which have been found in these bacteria, to be actively diagnosing and rebuilding of other damaged DNA sequences, also possess the ability to epigenetically alter DNA expression creatively! Meaning that under some circumstances the repairs which are conducted may also include deliberate alterations, bio-engineered in a way which improves the functioning of the DNA sequence in relation to its ever evolving environment.
This symphony of life works synergisticly to hold back the forces of entropy, which without these repair mechanisms, would tear our molecular bonds apart. There is a continual cohesiveness, regeneration and evolution of the life thread which holds all beings together. Certain animals through necessity or sheer will to survive have managed to push back against the rate of DNA decay. Many other animals of our size and metabolic demands have their DNA degenerate at much higher rates than our own, there may indeed be another factor to our longevity which has yet to be discovered.
Its generally recognized that because humans have delayed development, that offspring must be cared for, for extended periods of time, and societies are even reliant on the grandparents to live long enough to help pass on their knowledge and provide support to their grandchildren.
Still, how doth the necessity for longer lifespans manifest in reality of human beings who now live to beyond 100 years of age? Could these genetic repair sequences receive biofeedback messages from the environment? or even take orders directly from the electrical signals of the central nervous system, which instruct the DNA to hold things together and slow aging by any means necessary, and with this synergy between mind and matter, by the vital force of will alone, mankind has been able to evolve past all previous limitations, including one of the greatest limitations to the development of wisdom , a short lifespan.