<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"> <channel> <title>Amygdala bliss to dark night</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/c/message_boards/find_thread?p_l_id=&amp;threadId=5603636</link> <description>Amygdala bliss to dark night</description> <pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2014 01:42:00 GMT</pubDate> <dc:date>2014-10-19T01:42:00Z</dc:date> <item> <title>RE: Amygdala bliss to dark night</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5604339</link> <description>&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;John:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wonder if I could ask him to stop by the forum and explain ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ultimately that would be the best, since he can give more details or point to other studies that back him up.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2014 04:21:31 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5604339</guid> <dc:creator>Richard Zen</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-10-14T04:21:31Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Amygdala bliss to dark night</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5604335</link> <description>That&amp;#039;s the Jimmy, yes. I didn&amp;#039;t want to dig through his videos again to find the exact bit but you&amp;#039;ve got it there. Murphy says that prolonged intense stimulation of the happy side can cause a spillover of neural activity into the dark side so I wonder if there is any other confirmatory work on this ?&lt;br /&gt;He also says, if I remember, eventually this spillover can stop leaving a permanent enhanced connection tot he happy side. &lt;br /&gt;I wonder if I could ask him to stop by the forum and explain ?</description> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2014 04:13:37 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5604335</guid> <dc:creator>John</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-10-14T04:13:37Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Amygdala bliss to dark night</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5604322</link> <description>This might be the one you&amp;#039;re thinking of:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;www&amp;#x2e;youtube&amp;#x2e;com&amp;#x2f;watch&amp;#x3f;v&amp;#x3d;zqrpKUTMXgY"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqrpKUTMXgY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wikipedia:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;en&amp;#x2e;wikipedia&amp;#x2e;org&amp;#x2f;wiki&amp;#x2f;Amygdala&amp;#x23;Hemispheric_specializations"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdala#Hemispheric_specializations&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #252525"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: sans-serif"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px"&gt;There are functional differences between the right and left amygdala. In one study, electrical stimulations of the right amygdala induced negative emotions, especially fear and sadness. In contrast, stimulation of the left amygdala was able to induce either pleasant (happiness) or unpleasant (fear, anxiety, sadness) emotions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #252525"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: sans-serif"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px"&gt; Other evidence suggests that the left amygdala plays a role in the brain&amp;#039;s reward system.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2014 02:55:32 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5604322</guid> <dc:creator>Richard Zen</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-10-14T02:55:32Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Amygdala bliss to dark night</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5604049</link> <description>I don&amp;#039;t know if it&amp;#039;s somehow related to meditation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just remember Brene Brown saying that there are studies showing that joyful events are likely to lead to relapses of depression, alcoholism etc.&lt;br /&gt;Can&amp;#039;t have one without the other obviously.</description> <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:39:28 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5604049</guid> <dc:creator>bernd the broter</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-10-13T11:39:28Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Amygdala bliss to dark night</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5603635</link> <description>Watching a video on the neuroscience of meditation, I see an explanation that the amygdala has two sides, one dealing with happiness and one dealing with fear. If the stimulation of the happiness side becomes intense enough then the activity spills over to the other side and activates fear. This is supposed to be the origin of the cycles of bliss and dark night.&lt;br /&gt;Is this a well known explanation ?</description> <pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2014 20:57:30 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5603635</guid> <dc:creator>John</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-10-12T20:57:30Z</dc:date> </item> </channel> </rss> 