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Meditation: A way to achieve your goals in your life

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Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Meditation: A way to achieve your goals in your life

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Do we truly think that we have lived for ourselves? Perhaps we have lived for money, love, fame, family and pride etc.? Therefore, we don’t seem to be satisfied even though we are full of those things. It is because that we don’t know ourselves. Eric Fromm talked about human nature as two modes of being: “To Have” and “To Be”. If we are “Having” the nature of possessions, we are not satisfied, and feel empty and futile. Then, how can we be “Being” the nature of our inner-selves? Sometimes, we happened to be aware of this “Being” nature and try to change ourselves, but fail. But, because of our daily routines, it’s easily forgotten. And more it is hard to escape from our unwanted minds controlling us. From now on, let us reflect on ourselves and look at our minds leading up to today! Don’t we achieve our goals after knowing ourselves? And let us find the “Being” nature of our original selves after escaping from the minds restraining and controlling us. In this lecture, the definition and principle of the mind are explained in simple and clear ways. You can make sure and practice the methodology of finding the true original mind of inner-self by escaping from the false mind of possession. Self-reflection is the first step to meditate. You can know yourselves most objectively through meditation and you will realize that all the thoughts and actions are due to your minds which are nonexistent and false. If you throw away the false mind, you will find the true mind. Meditation is now world-wide sensation. There are many research reports that show people can be leaders if you have a habit of self-reflection through meditation. Now meditation at school and the workplace are popular. Happiness is having no worries. You can really relax yourself if there is no bundle of thoughts and you can be successful when you know yourself truly. Worries come from the memorized thoughts of the false mind. Your inner potential of positive power are revealed, your peaceful and happiest mind will be in your mind, and you can live the life you wanted through meditation. This method of meditation is very practical and everybody can follow the methodology. As an engineer, I will guide you step by step to practice this meditation. I am sure that this lecture becomes a turning point in your life.

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5 Self-reflection and the mind cleansing in ordinary life.

Learn and practice the methodology of self-reflection and the mind cleansing in everyday life: (1)Stress is the impetus for growth, (2) Case study on overcoming the self, (3) Health-mind relationship and brain wave changes, and (4) Meaning of self-reflection and the mind cleansing in life.

5-1. Self-reflection in ordinary life12:13

5-2. Stress is the impetus for growth12:11

5-3. Case study on overcoming the self18:38

5-4. Mind gravity13:31

5-5. Health-mind relationship13:53

5-6. Brain wave changes12:41

5-7. Meaning of self-reflection and mind cleansing life12:47

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Duck-Joo Lee
Professor
Aerospace Engineering

[MUSIC]

Hello, everyone.

I'm Professor Duck-Joo Lee.

We have continuously looked back on ourselves.

I guess you are now pretty much getting used to the recalling process.

Did you, by any chance, recall me

giving you a lecture while you were practicing on your own?

Well, this can be a problem. Because I told you that

everything you can recall in your mind are nothing but a stress.

I certainly don't want to be the cause of your stress.

However, if you take pictures of me and save what I look like and

sound like with your eyes and ears through this video.

and save it in your brain, you can later recall

how Professor Lee is handsome, or have a good voice.

This will lead you to compare maybe other professors you know,

and possibly cause you stress.

What did I just said?

I said, we take pictures and save in the brain,.

We already covered in the third week lectures how brain perceive things.

The recalling process in the brain, and

how the brain changes when we do the subtraction.

If we practice discarding thought during this,

activated the state of neural system.

Intensity of corresponding networks get weakened through

what we call in neuroscience, the extinction learning.

Today, we are going to see how our brain waves

change in accordance with the subtraction of saved images in our brain.

Aren't you curious?

Before we talk about the brain waves, let's see how our nerves are structed.

Cranial nerve are spread all over the brain, and

when the brain is relaxed, so

called extinction learning can only happen.

Brain state can be measured by EEG,

which is electrical activity measured from the scalp.

When the brain is in a relaxed state, the alpha rhythm,

8 to 13 Hertz, becomes more powerful and

spread throughout the cortex.

So, when we say alpha rhythm becomes dominant in the brain,

which means brain is rather in a stable and relaxed state.

In University of San Diego, California,

there has been a study about the correlation between the meditation and

the EEG held by both cognitive science and the psychology team.

They assigned those who don't practice meditation as the control group.,

and recorded the EEG from the meditation group before, and

100 hours after the meditation.

As you can see, the meditation group shows much

strong alpha power at the back of their heads.

Like this, we can infer that all we have recalled were the cause of stress.

and that stress can be lowered as we subtract

the false mind as we eliminate those recalled images.

Moreover, it can affect our brain waves

as the scientists proved in the EEG.

This is the stress index chart.

Just by taking a glance, you will notice the difference

between the control group and meditation group is huge.

In South Korea, we have studied the changes of

EEG by the meditation aimed at teachers.

For the teachers, we recorded the EEG before and

after one week training program of meditation.

As for the results, we can see not only the changes

in the EEG, but their attention concentration level.

Thanks to science and medicine, we can measure the stability of our brain state.

There are endless amount of meditation effects we

can find out through this kind of studies.

Today, let's start self-reflective meditation on that.

Close your eyes please.

Time flies really fast, 10 years,

20 years have passed,. 50 years.,

100 years and 200 years

have passed and I'm dead now.

As a dead spirit I go up into the infinite universe.

Another 100 years have passed,

the Earth looks like a pea-sized dot.

Today, we will recall all my life back in the Earth.

especially focusing on the habits.

Everything I recall happened

in that tiny Earth 100 years,

200 years ago.

Keep your eyes closed and focus on the recalling.

If you had any habit, try to remember those stuff.

Blinking when nervous, biting the nails,

humming to yourself, scratching your head.

Recall anything that pops up in your head then thinking about habit.

Do you have habit of over-sleeping or putting of things?

If you habitually smoke, game, or

drink, recall those as well.

Has anybody ever pointed out your habit or asked you to fix it?

What efforts have been made to fix those habits?

Did you ever just wanted to give up because thing

didn't work out the way you wanted?

Why do you think that was?

Try to remember why did you start doing that at the first place?

What incident could have been stuck in your brain so

long and triggered you to do things as a habit?

Okay, we will stop here.

If you are used to an idea in your head,

that becomes an fixed idea.

However if you are used to a behavior, that becomes a habit.

The root of your habit is the strong picture stored in your brain.

For example, you might have found out that humming helps release stress.

Then your brain stores such experience as a memory and

instruct you to react in the same way the next time you get stressed.

Bruce Hood, who is an expert scientist in cognitive

development once said, ��100 billion neurons in our

brain create patterns in infinite variety as we encounter

different environmental conditions while growing up.��

These patterns construct individual's emotion and behavior.

The so-called self, means

the combined sensations, conceptions, and

the thought of layers of patterns in the brain.

That means our consciousness always be in the past.

However, if all those images don't get recalled because

of the subtraction we do in self-reflective meditation.,

we will live in the present moment, free from all

the past ideas, and the conventional thoughts.

A true freedom is the happiness.

For a surprise, I will show you my own EEG data.

This is my EEG four years ago.

How beautiful those blue waves are.

As you can see, right and left brain are balanced out evenly.

At that time, among over 80,000 of

EEG data in that institute, they said they

have never seen such a stable EEG data before.

Are you following me okay?

If you have any questions, please ask.

I will see you next class.

Thank you.

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