艾皓德

Halvor Eifring uses meditative traditions to shed light on modern rootlessness, spontaneous thought and the baggage we bring into meditation.

The brain shows more signs of relaxation during meditation than during ordinary rest. Nondirective meditation has a greater impact than does concentrative meditation, especially in parts of the cortex associated with the processing of stress, emotions, and memories.

Sound plays a central role in many forms of meditation, including Acem Meditation. What is it about sound that stimulates relaxation as well as psychological and existential processes?

Everyone who has learned Acem Meditation knows that meditation is not about emptying the mind, as many others tend to believe. The challenge is to become friends with everything that spontaneously emerges in consciousness.

“Nondirective meditation” is a modern concept, and so is the “free mental attitude” that goes with it.

Nondirective meditation and mindfulness meditation are related and have many effects in common.