Destiny: Marianne Bentzen, Neuroaffective Meditation
Earth Ancients
Cliff Dunning
4.6 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2022
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
• Shares 16 guided meditations for neuroaffective brain development and emotional maturation, along with links to online recordings
• Explores the stages of emotional development, from childhood to old age, and their potentials for developing new ways of functioning
• Reveals the biopsychological effects of meditation on the human brain, including how it affects us at the autonomic, limbic, and prefrontal levels
Drawing on her 25 years of research into brain development as well as decades of meditation practice, psychotherapist Marianne Bentzen shows how neuroaffective meditation--the holistic integration of meditation, neuroscience, and psychology--can be used for personal growth and conscious maturation. She also explores how the practice can help address embedded traumas and allow access to the best perspectives of growing older while keeping the best psychological attitudes of being young--a hallmark of wisdom. She explains that there is a sequence to emotional maturation, just as there is for the development of cognitive or athletic skills, and details the central developmental processes of childhood and adolescence and the adult stages of psychological development. She then explores the biopsychological effects of meditation on the human brain, including how it affects us at the autonomic, limbic, and prefrontal levels.
The author shares 16 guided meditations for neuroaffective brain development (along with links to online recordings), each designed to gently interact with the deep, unconscious layers of the brain and help you reconnect to yourself, your relationships, and the world around. Each meditation explores a different theme, from breathing in “being in your body” to feeling love, compassion, and gratitude in “the songs of the heart” to balancing positive and negative experiences in “mandala.” The author also shares a 5-part meditation centered on breathing exercises designed to balance your energy.
Presenting an authentic, stepwise approach to spiritual growth, emotional maturation, and brain development, this guide explains the science behind neuroaffective meditation and offers detailed practices for a truly personal and ever-evolving experience of inner wisdom and growth.
Marianne Bentzen is a psychotherapist and trainer in neuroaffective development psychology. The author and coauthor of many professional articles and books, including The Neuroaffective Picture Book, she has taught in 17 countries and presented at more than 35 international and national conferences. She lives in Denmark.
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| 0:30.9 | Welcome to Destiny. Now here's your host, Cliff Dunning. |
| 0:53.6 | You know, it appears that our ancestors knew quite a bit more about our physiology, |
| 0:58.6 | the human body, how it works, how the brain works, and the different levels of consciousness, |
| 1:05.0 | without really providing us with a great deal of information other than some passages and books |
| 1:12.4 | and what has been passed down orally. This week we're going to look at meditation, |
| 1:19.1 | how it affects the body, what apparently our ancestors knew about it, and what they have passed |
| 1:25.9 | down through decades or longer periods of oral traditions of how the brain functions in a |
| 1:37.6 | meditative condition. Now we've had different authors on the program talking about the benefits |
| 1:44.4 | of meditation. In some cases, we've got some techniques. I've mentioned many times that I was |
| 1:53.6 | trained at a very young age just before I entered college. I took a course and it's been with me |
| 2:02.0 | pretty much most of my adult life. I think I had a period of a few years where I was just kind |
| 2:08.3 | of out of it. I don't know what was going on, but I stopped meditating during that period, |
| 2:14.8 | and I got to tell you, those are some dark periods and I sure could have |
| 2:19.2 | used the meditative process when I was in that state. But I went back and began meditating again, |
| 2:28.5 | and so to this day, I meditate at least once a day without fault, without fail. I mean, it's so |
| 2:37.1 | important that I can't really, I don't really feel myself if I don't meditate. So today, |
| 2:47.7 | we're going to talk about the scientific evidence for the benefits of meditation, |
| 2:55.0 | not just that it's great for keeping your thinking process in line, not necessarily the changes |
| 3:07.1 | that take place in the brain, although we will be talking about the different portions of the |
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