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>> No.3195277

Define meditation

>> No.3195283

If you do so much meditation, why aren't you smart?

>> No.3195286

Who says I don't?

>> No.3195284

running and digging trenches
best meditation ever.

>> No.3195287

too smart to meditate, my mind just doesnt slow down enough to maintain it for more than a few seconds

>> No.3195293

As part of "Self Improvement Summer" I've been meaning to start meditating.
However, I have not yet learned how. Does anyone know a good source where I can learn about and get started on, say, secular meditation?

>> No.3195316

>>3195293
straight jacket, blindfolds, and a meat freezer.

it aint real meditation unless you pass out.

>> No.3195319

>>3195293
do drugs
go to bed
profit

>> No.3195325

because its useless and bullshit. you seriously dont need that. take benzos
i am not saying it has no positive effects,i am saying its a waste of time.

>> No.3195330

>>3195316
Must be some gay engineer fetish.
What irony that they call it "straight" jacket.

>> No.3195334

>>3195325
as opposed tot he vastly more productive enterprise of 4chan?

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>>3195325
>2011
>benzos

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>>3195325

>> No.3195354

i aint smart. fuk off you mouse

>> No.3195357

>2011
>meditation
>buddhist crap

>> No.3195361

>>3195325
http://www.physorg.com/news10312.html
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/meditation-0505.html
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200304/the-benefits-meditation
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/04/study-the-scientific-bene_n_123987.html

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>>3195325
>taking benzos ever

>> No.3195396

>>3195334
lol this

>> No.3195401

>>3195330
oh crap, I just got a little hard.

>> No.3195407

>>3195387
Nigger, you just gone full retard.

>> No.3195404

I run, I climb trees, and I sit for hours reading a book about science, or maths, or someone's life.. Pretty sure that's meditation.

Stating the obvious, meditation isn't an accessory or precursor of intelligence.

>> No.3195420

>>3195361
Meditation has been demonstrated to be exactly as healthy as taking a nap. Nothing more, nothing less.

Also, lol@huffpo on a science board.

>> No.3195421

>>3195343
>>3195387

not that i agree with that anon, but benzos are pretty awesome. Even if only for the smug satisfaction of knowing that the plebs will have hangovers tomorrow, whereas i will great the day fresh and ready to continue enjoying my awesome weekend.

>> No.3195428

>>3195420

holy shit why cant you

hold all those sources

>> No.3195432

If you're so smart, how come you can't capitalize a fucking sentence, or use an apostrophe?

>> No.3195435

>>3195426
>not capitalizing his fucking sentence
>2011

>> No.3195438

>>3195420
>durr

Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness
Neuroreport. 2005 November 28; 16(17): 1893–1897.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361002/

An outpatient program in behavioral medicine for chronic pain patients based on the practice of mindfulness meditation: Theoretical considerations and preliminary results
General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 4, Issue 1, April 1982, Pages 33-47
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0163834382900263

>just a sampling from a simple scientific journal search
>derpity derp

>> No.3195439

>>3195428
All those fantastic sources support my statement, you dumb fuck.

>> No.3195440

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwwKbM_vJc

>> No.3195446

>>3195438
see
>>3195439

>> No.3195453

>>3195440

That opening joke got way less laughs than it deserved

I actually lol'd

>> No.3195480

>>3195277
sex with extraterrestial from uranus

>> No.3195492

>>3195271
>>3195271
If you actually have time for such things, then you obviously don't have enough to do.

>> No.3195552

>>3195492
>If you have time for 4chan, then you obviously don't have much to do.

ftfy

>> No.3195578

>>3195421
or you could just smoke weed...

>> No.3195588

>>3195480
The greek civilization was really interested in uranus.

>> No.3195678

4chan is more important than meditation am i rite guise xD

>> No.3195762

>>3195420

So why not take a nap?

>> No.3195786

>>>/mu/17917182

>> No.3195800

>>3195762
Yeah, that's kind of my point.