Working Out Your Meditation Muscles
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You ever hear of the study that looked at the effects of weight training on people’s meditation practices?
I was recently having lunch with my friend Huy (who ran the first Integral workshop I attended) and he reminded me of this great study.
Here’s the deal: Apparently a researcher came to a Vipassana teacher and split his students into two groups: a group that meditated as usual and one that added strength training to their practice. The teacher wasn’t told who was in what group.
Fast forward a year.
The teacher was asked to rank his students in terms of his perception of the depth of their meditation practice.
Guess who performed significantly better?
Yep. The group that was doing both the meditation and the strength training.
Cool, eh?
Lots of potential reasons why. But it seems the evidence is pointing toward you getting some muscle into that meditation practice of yours!
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