(꼭 볼 것)Dan Harris : Hack Your Brain's Default Mode with Meditation(4분영상)

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아래 영상에서 말하고 있는 Dan Harris는 미국의 유명한 ABC News의 앵커이다.  

  관찰삼매에 들어서 망상을 멈추고, 현재 자신이 하고 있는 행위를 알아차리고, 자신의 몸과 마음에서 일어나고 있는 현상을 알아차려라. 그렇게 계속 알아차림을 통해 관찰해나가면 엄청난 이익을 얻게 된다. 근심, 걱정, 우울, 스트레스가 확 줄어들고, 행복해지며, 지혜가 밝아진다. 이러한 사실은 현대과학의 연구가 말해주고 있다. 신경과학, 뇌과학 등이 말해주고 있다.

  이 글을 주변의 많은 분들께 전해주시기 바랍니다. <위빠사나금정선원> 관정 합장  

Hack(거칠게 자르다) Your Brain's Default Mode with Meditationn Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideoJoin Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Harris was named co-anchor of ABC News' weekend edition of "Good Morning America" in October 2010. He is also a correspondent for ABC News' broadcasts and platforms including "World News with Diane Sawyer," "Good Morning America," "Nightline," ABC News Digital and ABC News Radio, and for four years anchored "World News Sunday."Harris joined ABC News in March 2000 and has covered many of the biggest stories in recent years. He has reported on the mass shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, Aurora, Colorado and Tucson, Arizona, and has covered natural disasters from Haiti to Myanmar to New Orleans. He has also reported on combat(전투, 논쟁) in Afghanistan, Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, and has made six visits to Iraq.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT: There’s no way a fidgety(헛소동 부리는) and skeptical(의심 많은, 회의적인) news anchor would ever have started meditating were it not for the science. The science is really compelling(강력한). It shows that meditation can boost your immune system, lower your blood pressure, help you deal with problems ranging from irritable(신경과민의) bowel(창자) syndrome(증후군) to psoriasis(마른버짐, 건선). And the neuroscience(신경과학) is where it really gets sci-fi(공상과학소설). There was a study out of Harvard that shows that short daily doses of meditation can literally grow the gray matter in key areas of your brain having to do with self-awareness and compassion and shrink the gray matter in the area associated with stress.There was also a study out of Yale that looked at what’s called the default mode network of the brain. It’s a connected series of brain regions that are active during most of our waking hours when we’re doing that thing that human beings do all the time which is obsessing(고민하다) about ourselves, thinking about the past, thinking about the future, doing anything but being focused on what’s happening right now. Meditators not only turn off the default mode network of their brain while they’re meditating but even when they’re not meditating. In other words, meditators are setting a new default mode. And what’s that default mode? They’re focused on what’s happening right now. In sports this is called being in the zone. It’s nothing mystical. It’s not magical. You’re not floating off into cosmic ooze(늪지). You are just being where you are – big cliché in self-help circles is being in the now. You can use that term if you want but because it’s accurate. It’s slightly annoying(성가신, 지겨운) but it’s accurate. It’s more just being focused on what you’re doing. And the benefits of that are enormous. And this is why you’re seeing these unlikely meditators now, why you’re seeing the U.S. Marines adopting it, the U.S. Army, corporate executives from the head of Ford to the founders of Twitter. Athletes from Phil Jackson to many, many Olympians. Scientists, doctors, lawyers, school children. There’s this sort of elite subculture 이(異)문화 (집단) of high achievers who are adopting this because they know it can help you be more focused on what you’re doing and it can stop you from being yanked around by the voice in your head. My powers of prognostication(예지) are not great. I bought a lot of stock in a company that made Palm Pilot back in 2000 and that didn’t go so well for me. But having said that I’m going to make a prediction. I think we’re looking at meditation as the next big public health revolution. In the 1940s if you told people that you went running they would say, who’s chasing you. Right now if you tell people you meditate – and I have a lot of experience with telling people this, they’re going to look at you like you’re a little weird(예언자) most of the time. That’s going to change. Meditation is going to join the pantheon(판테온, 신들을 모신 신전) of no brainers like exercise, brushing your teeth and taking the meds that your doctor prescribes to you. These are all things that if you don’t do you feel guilty about. And that is where I think we’re heading with meditation because the science is so strongly suggestive that meditation can do really, really great things for your brain and for your body.The common assumption(가정) that we have, and it may be subconscious(잠재의식의), is that our happiness really depends on external factors – how was our childhood, have we won the lottery recently, did we marry well, did we marry at all. But, in fact, meditation suggests that happiness is actually a skill, something you can train just the way you can train your body in the gym. It’s a self-generated thing. And that’s a really radical notion. It doesn’t mean that external circumstances aren’t going to impact your happiness. It doesn’t mean you’re not going to be subject to the vagaries(운명 등의 장난) of an impermanent, entropic universe. It just means you are going to be able to navigate(조종하다, 항해하다) this with a little bit more ease.

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