Tag Archives: emotion

Functional MRI imaging shows changes in the level of amygdala arousal after Buddhist-like meditation training, even outside the meditative state —results from a very small study 0

Citation — to study Gaëlle Desbordes, Lobsang T. Negi, Thaddeus W. W. Pace, B. Alan Wallace, Charles L. Raison, and Eric L. Schwartz, Effects of mindful-attention and compassion meditation training on amygdala response to emotional stimuli in an ordinary, non-meditative state, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 6: 292, DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00292 (01 November 2012) Citation — to [...]

Will cooler American heads prevail, regarding calls to intervene in Libya? — Hopefully so 1

The United States is overextended militarily — we don’t need to add a third prong to our recklessly self-defeating geopolitical strategy Emotion, ignorance, undisciplined impulsivity, and increasingly ingrained militarism get the United States into self-initiated wars that do not make geopolitical strategic sense.  Once in, we find it virtually impossible to extricate ourselves. We seem [...]