A study published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary medicine in 2017 led by researchers from Boston University asked 30 people with major depression to practice the breathing technique regularly as well as Iyengar yoga. After 3 months, results from a standard depression inventory test showed how the depressive symptoms had significantly declined.
Even though the study size was very small, it is comforting to know that something as simple as breath alone could help to alleviate symptoms of severe depression. No pills needed. This technique is especially powerful because it can be practiced anytime, anywhere. The process involved taking regular breaths in and out of the nose, at a pace of 5 breaths per minute, each breath in and out taking around 6 seconds. The breath should be calm and gentle because the goal is to balance the sympathetic--fight or flight with the parasympathetic--rest and digest areas of the nervous system.
Gerbarg and Brown believe that the reason this technique works is thanks to the vagal nerves, those connecting the brain to the body and what tell the organs when to beat, digest, breathe and all other functions, have been found in recent years to send even more messages in the opposite direction from the body to the brain. "These ascending messages strongly influence stress response, emotion and neurohormonal regulatory networks," stated in a book written by the couple, Yoga Therapy: Theory and Practice.
According to Gerbarg, "Respiration is the only autonomic function we can voluntarily control," it’s easy to see how changing the breathing pattern can shift the messages received by the brain.
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You Are Hallucinating Your Reality
One of the keys is "predictive processing" that challenges our intuitive feeling that our brains passively receive information (via our senses) and create perceptions of what is actually out there--the so-called bottom-up approach. Instead, predictive processing argues that perception, action and cognition are the outcome of computations in the brain involving both bottom-up and top-down processing, in which prior knowledge about the world and our own cognitive and emotional state influence perception.
As researchers Metzinger and Wiese point out, the idea of top-down processing is not new, but "dominant theories of perception have for a long time marginalized" its role. The novel contribution of predictive processing, they report, is that it emphasises the importance of top-down processing and prior knowledge as a feature of perception, one which is present all the time--not only when sensory input is noisy or ambiguous.
In a nutshell, the brain builds models of the environment and the body, which it uses to make hypotheses about the source of sensations. The hypothesis that is deemed most likely becomes a perception of external reality. Of course, the prediction could be accurate or awry, and it is the brain's job to correct for any errors--after making a mistake, it can modify its models to account better for similar situations in the future.
But some models cannot be changed willy-nilly, for example, those of our internal organs. Our body needs to remain in a narrow temperature range around 98°F, so predictive processing achieves such control by predicting that, say, the sensations on our skin should be in line with normal body temperature. When the sensations deviate, the brain doesn’t change its internal model, but rather forces us to move towards warmth or cold, so that the predictions fall in line with the required physiological state.
If you do get through enough of the papers to understand the computational principles behind predictive processing then, as Metzinger and Wiese put it, you get closer to understanding why "it is only a small step towards describing processing in the brain as a controlled online hallucination". Everything we perceive, including ourselves, are simulacrums of reality. The takeaway here is this wild thought: we are always hallucinating.
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Meditation as a Form of Social Protest
Whether in peace or in violence the word "protest" indicates a negative response to an issue. Through the act of protesting, a negative response is created, while trying to perpetuate a positive outcome. In the past few years science has begun to reveal, through the lens of quantum physics, the relationship between our thoughts and the reality that we live.
A handful of experiments have used the act of meditation to explore the ability collective thoughts have to change the local environment. Studies conducted in Wales and Lebanon in the 1980s saw crime rates drop after large group meditations were conducted, as well as the well-known demonstrations by the Maharishi University in Fairfield, Iowa, that declared statistically convincing proof that meditation affected crime rates. These studies open new venues for positive activism, shifting the belief that protest is the only way to create positive change.
David Nicol, the author of Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary Transformation, has been activating the role of mindful techniques to instigate social, environmental, and political change. In an interview with Uplift Nicol describes this kind of activism as the "use of spiritual or consciousness based practices for collective transformation." Meditation, often times, is thought of as a practice for personal, inner growth. Nicol believes that through subtle activism large groups of meditators sitting together with a specific intention can go beyond their inner journey to impact the world outside of themselves.
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For those of you dabbling in the Art of Manifesting, or those of you who are deeply committed to a life of light and energy as the primary drivers of your experience, I'd like to address the illusion of what I call "time drag". Time drag is the apparent passage of time from the moment we imagine the fulfillment of a desire and the "realization" of it. It is, probably, the most vexing, and most misunderstood of physical phenomenon for the would-be creator.
The University of Arizona’s Stuart Hameroff and physicist Sir Roger Penrose conclude that the human consciousness is information. Penrose and his team are finding signs that "protein-based microtubules–also a structural component of human cells–transmit sensory information– information stored on a subatomic level."
Consciousness researcher, David Chalmers, postulates a new paradigm in science in which consciousness is established as a fundamental and possibly universal building block of nature. "Consciousness is a fundamental aspect of our existence," says Chalmers: "There's nothing we know about more directly, yet at the same time, it's the most mysterious phenomenon in the universe."
Up until now, a human's only direct experience of mind was through the human mind itself--entirely based on personal experience, and indirectly through communication with others. There has been no way to entertain the idea of directly knowing a mind other than one's own--the "one" with all of the stories tied to one's "identity."
This is an ancient Taoist practice, where you put your attention on an area of the body and have it smile back at you. For example, there is a pain in the right knee. Observe the pain, and then have the knee smile back to you. You may find it frowns first, but continue until there is a smile. You'll notice a marked decrease or subsiding of the pain, and perhaps some gentle throbbing in the area. This is a sign the energy flow has been restored. This is an excellent practice to do upon morning waking.
"I am all about breaking down the illusions--whether it is feeling or thought--and separating out the emotional, physical, mental energies so that the pearls of wisdom buried can be free of the pain that created it. This allows for new realities, clearing out the perceived negatives that encode the information and hold patterns stuck. My starting point is that life is sacred and a joy. I have come to that vantage point after dealing personally with diagnosed and undiagnosed catastrophic illnesses for most of my life. At some point you have to find a way not to let that be the only thing that defines you. Everyday it is a choice to be alive and live life with deep appreciation and in joyous wonderment. I don't intend to make life only about surviving and dying anymore. Realizing how not to be a victim to our illusions of who we are and what we feel physically and emotionally is a life´s journey. Learning how to take the hurts that we each all hold and distilling them into the gifts of wisdom that they truly are takes time, energy and experience. It is only consciousness directing experiences." 
Within the tenets of epigenetics there is the theory that the cells of our body have structures on them that act like broadcast receivers, existing to "pick up" a specific quantum broadcast of consciousness--YOU. This broadcast of YOU exists everywhere in the universe, so that when the cells and DNA of your body tuned into it, you took on that body as an expression of your broadcast.
I'm humorously reminded of the Seinfeld TV Series episode where the characters all experienced the "Opposite World", where success is achieved by "doing the opposite" of what seems logical or reasonable. And in a very real sense, this is a workable strategy in realizing our greatest desires and highest intentions: Reach beyond the automatic, habitual way of seeing the world--do what's NOT expected, what's irrational, or impractical--as doing that is closer to the way of achieving the freedom we strive for.