i want to know how to use more of my brain. \nCan you do this with meditation?
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i have heard that if you are right-brained, doing more left-brained activities can enable you to use more of that half of your brain & vice versa.  i suppose this enables you to use more of your brain as a whole.  also, there are physical activities you can do to increase brain power.  go to www.braingym.com.
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Hello again Lu...\n\nMeditation is okay, but what you really need to learn, is post-meditation & pre-meditation techniques...\n\nWhat I mean is, you need to find ways to relax all the time, not just for an hour a day!
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Try the legal and safe drug caffeine. It has been shown to help think better.
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Get a brain first....
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Yes. this s a mini-meditation of putting some of your attention on your own tongue and throat when in a conversation. It results in your keeping your voice down at a modulated and reasonable level,\nand thinking more slowly, so that you do not seem to be ramming your own thoughts, ego and feelings into the atmosphere
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When one meditates, one clears his/her mind of all thoughts, all images; thus allowing the body and mind to rejuvenate and rest.  Sometimes the state of meditation can be so relaxing that one actually falls asleep.  I believe that there are a few "schools" of thought on how to accomplish this state.  One quite familiar to me is Transcendental Meditation, which you can find classes for by looking through your telephone directory/internet.  The idea here is that you are given a word to concentrate on, which you repeat to yourself in silence, in order to focus yourself away from thoughts and images.  Training consists of approximately 5 classes and then practicing on your own.  The origins of this method come from India.
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HAHAHA.  I read this pretty late last night.  I thought you said "medicate."\n\nTo mediTATE, you can check out some of these simple methods:\n\nhttp://buddhism.kalachakranet.org/Meditations/index.html
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Meditation is Simple\n\nAs meditation became popular in the West, beginning in the late 1960s and 1970s, and many different meditation approaches were introduced to the West, a lot of misinformation was spread. At Centerpointe, we talk to a lot of people everyday interested in meditation -- some of whom have been meditating off and on for years (unfortunately, a lot of times with little to show for it). The mish-mash of beliefs about meditation, what it is, how it works, and how to identify when you are doing it properly is amazing. Hopefully this article will clear up some of the misconceptions and simplify something that has been overly complicated over the last 30 years.\n\nMeditation is a tool used to gain self-awareness, to help get the mind out of the way so you can more clearly see who you really are. Those who have succeeded in this quest tell us the resulting peace, happiness, and connection to (God, the One, your Self, the Infinite -- pick one) is immeasurably better than the stressed-out and often hopeless existence many people are experiencing.\n\nFrom research done in the 1970s, we learned that all forms of meditation involve the slowing of the electrical brain wave patterns from the normal, everyday beta brain wave pattern to the slower alpha rhythms. Very experienced meditators enjoy short excursions,  lasting a few moments at a time, into the even slower trance-like theta brain wave pattern.\n\nThis slowing of the electrical brain wave patterns in every case is accomplished -- in traditional meditation -- by some kind of focusing, the most popular points of focus being the breath, or a mantra or prayer. Any kind of focusing causes the brain wave patterns to slow.\n\n[Now I know this "brain wave pattern" approach to understanding doesn't sound as romantic as some of the more metaphorical Eastern explanations, but I believe it is more useful (and I don't think it negates the Eastern explanations, either).]\n\nSo what does slowing the brain wave patterns accomplish? Several things. First, it creates an altered state. You become more relaxed. The brain makes endorphins, DHEA (a hormone related to health and well-being and a buffer against stress), human growth hormone, serotonin, and a number of other hormones and neurochemicals related to relaxation, stress release, and well-being. While in this altered state, you may partially or even totally lose contact with the outside world for moments at a time.\n\nSecond, the slower brain wave patterns create electrical fluctuations the brain cannot handle -- the way it is currently structured. To deal with this, the brain creates a new structure that can handle these fluctuations. The two sides of the brain begin to communicate more, leading to whole brain functioning, which includes greater mental abilities, and greater self awareness, resolution of emotional problems, greater balance in the brain, and what most people describe as a greater feeling of connect to everything around them.\n\nNow, you may have meditated, even meditated quite a lot, and had very little of this happen to you. Why is that? It's because it isn't that easy to create the focus required to slow the brain wave patterns and then to hold them at the point where the brain must create the required changes. Most people require several years of practice to get the technique down -- and most people are too impatient to really work at it long enough to do so. Then, it requires practicing this focus for a few hours a day to really create deep changes. So, at best, people experience some relaxation (which is good) but little real transformation.\n\nThen there is the issue of what many people call the "monkey mind." As you focus on your breath or your mantra, you periodically realize you're thinking about something else: what happened before, what will happen later, the noise you just heard, the pain in your leg -- anything but what you intended to focus on. Your mind fig
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Meditation Alters Brain Structure (11/5/2004) http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma8/monkstudy.html\n\nMeditation changes the brain's electrical pattern (11/16/04)\nhttp://www.news.wisc.edu/10420.html\n\nMeditation Gives Brain a Charge, Study Finds (1/3/05)\nhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43006-2005Jan2.html\n\nScience Explores Meditation's Effect on the Brain (7/26/05)\nhttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4770779\n\nMeditation associated with increased grey matter in the brain (11/10/05)\nhttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-11/yu-maw111005.php\n\nMeditation associated with structural changes in brain (11/13/05)\nhttp://www.world-science.net/othernews/051113_meditatefrm.htm\n\nMeditation builds up the brain (11/15/05)\nhttp://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8317\n\nmeditation can physically change the brain (12/14/05)\nhttp://abcnews.go.com/Technology/DyeHard/story?id=1402881\n\nMeditation found to increase brain size (1/27/06)\nhttp://www.physorg.com/news10312.html
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as an employee at a drug store, I can tell you that there are many supplements that can be used to improve brain function. One such product is Centrum Performance, a vitamin, which is supposed to "vitalize body and mind." another product is called BrainSpeed (runs about $40 for 60 tablets), obviously directed more for the brain. I personally haven't tried either of these products, nor have I spoken to anyone who has. I have been considering trying Centrum Performance. Anyway, just talk to a doctor or check out your local drug store.
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For me, meditation is the best way.
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I got into that a while back. I was indoctrinated by someone who had me bring some offerings such as an orange, a handkerchief and some other items to a ceremony where he uttered my "magical" word. Mine was "Om". I was to take this magical word and chant it in my mind continuously while I closed my eyes and sat in meditation for around 15 minutes. 2 minutes in the beginning to clear you mind and think of nothing, then repeat the magical word over and over again for the rest of the time. Towards the end, stop for another 2 minutes and think of nothing, then slowly open my eyes. If I'd open too fast, or stop in the middle of my meditation, I usually got a bad headache immediately.\n\nSeems to work for me, but it was definetely not better than praying in Islam.
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Try meditation.  I have a spiritual master, well for all of like eight days now and it's working pretty good.  It's helped me to calm down some.  She doesn't charge, if you want to speak to her msg me and I'll give you her email.
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Meditation can certainly help you to control anger.\n\nThe whole aim of meditation is,\n1. to calm your mind, and\n2. to focus the mind on one thing.\n\nIf you sit down and close your eyes you will notice that your mind is jumping from one thought to another. Even though you want to concentrate on your breath you will find other thoughts also coming in between.\n\nIn learning to meditate you must first learn to calm your mind. You do this by following every thought that comes into you mind. You must be like a Manager of a Hotel who stands at the entrance and observes the customers coming in. Without getting attached to the thoughts try to observe them. You will find that a thought comes in and that it goes nowhere and another thought follows it - try following that too - with same results. This way you will find that your thoughts gradually subside. Do not try to force out your thoughts.\n\nOf course do not expect results in one or two days. Practise it for at least 40 minutes every day for at least 2 months you find that you have 'killed' your train of thoughts. I have practised for 1 1/2 years and still vagrant thoughts come in.\n\nThereafter start concentrating on your breath. Notice the breath coming in and going out. You should not concentrate only on the tip of your nose. Notice the breath coming in and thereafter your lungs getting filled and then gradually exhaling the breath.\n\nAfter you finish that for the day start to think of a person or several persons whom you hate most. Having those people in mind start to think in a compassionate manner "may he be healthy,  may he be happy, may he go up in life, may he live long".  Keep on doing this for about 10 minutes a day for a few months you will find that you do not get angry even when you have to get angry.\n\nYou should be able to get some guidance from the following sites,\n\n1. http://www.dhamma.org/vipassan.htm\n2. http://www.meditationexpert.com/  and click on the free articles on yoga meditation - it includes articles on all types of meditations including christian and muslim meditation.
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The whole aim of meditation is,\n1. to calm your mind, and\n2. to focus the mind on one thing.\n\nThe mind of a normal person is like an uncontrolled monkey jumping from one thought to another. To process all these thoughts a lot of body energy is used. Thus if your mind cease to process thoughts you will be saving a lot of body energy which can be used to cure a lot of ailments in your body. That is why a person who continues to meditate regularly even gets a nice body complexion.\n\nAnapana or concentration on the breath is the best form of meditation.\n\nIf you sit down and close your eyes you will notice that your mind is jumping from one thought to another. Even though you want to concentrate on your breath you will find other thoughts also coming in between.\n\nIn learning to meditate you must first learn to calm your mind. You do this by following every thought that comes into you mind. You must be like a Manager of a Hotel who stands at the entrance and observes the customers coming in. Without getting attached to the thoughts try to observe them. You will find that a thought comes in and that it goes nowhere and another thought follows it - try following that too - with same results. This way you will find that your thoughts gradually subside. Do not try to force out your thoughts.\n\nOf course do not expect results in one or two days. Practise it for at least 40 minutes every day for at least 2 months you find that you have 'killed' your train of thoughts. I have practised for 1 1/2 years and still vagrant thoughts come in.\n\nThereafter start concentrating on your breath. Notice the breath coming in and going out. You should not concentrate only on the tip of your nose. Notice the breath coming in and thereafter your lungs getting filled and then gradually exhaling the breath.\n\nAfter you finish that for the day start to think of a person or several persons whom you hate most. Having those people in mind start to think in a compassionate manner "may he be healthy, may he be happy, may he go up in life, may he live long". Keep on doing this for about 10 minutes a day for a few months you will find that you do not get angry even when you have to get angry.\n\nYou should be able to get some guidance from the following sites,\n\n1. http://www.dhamma.org/vipassan.htm\n2. http://www.meditationexpert.com/   and click on the free articles on yoga meditation - it includes articles on all types of meditations including christian and muslim meditation.
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practice, try different excerises, the brain is a muscle that must be used to improve
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meditation iz verry effective!!! the best thing to do is go outside where u are only surrounded by nature. kinda lay down and relax. make perfectly sure u are not worried about anything. think about happy things that have happened in your life. sit and do that for atleast 30-60 minutes.