Just like physcial training leads to an increase in physical strength, so will mental workouts lead to the strengthening of our expanded consciousness. Neuroscience is studying how contemplative practice can impact attention, memory, perception, imagery, as well as other mental functions. Research studies have shown that mental training can transform the mind. Negative emotions can be reduced, and positive ones can be enhanced. This mental transformation can lead to resistance to mental distress and physical disease, and expand our healing capacitites. Elliot Dacher claims that all this can be acheived through the mental workout of contemplative practices. Contemplative practice can also open us up to our inner self, to an aspect of ourselves that we can trust, and that speaks the truth. He claims that contemplative practice leads to the progressive development of an expanded consciousness, and its healing capacities. I can implement these mental workouts by practicing them during my "quiet time" in the morning.
Kathy
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