This article in the July/August issue of the Journal for the Psychology of Eating and Weight Loss is a good read.
A few lines down, you can see my own thoughts on the article.
This is the part I like the most. After reading it, I was able to think about what this research actually means for our bodies. Sure, we’re all going to die someday and this is one of the few ways we don’t have to worry about that, but if we want to build a better body, we may need to work more with our minds and less with our bodies.
And that’s exactly what the katusa research is all about. It’s about learning how to use our minds to control our bodies. This is exactly like the research in the Journal of Social and Cognitive Science that showed that people who are told to think about a task for 30 seconds have better success. This is a study that has been replicated and proven to be effective. Why? Because its true.
The research shows that using your mind to control your body will not only lead to better health, but also to better performance in almost any given task. For example, a study carried out by the University of Illinois at Chicago found that people who were told to think about a task for 10 seconds before exercising had a 50 percent increase in strength compared to the control group. Likewise, a study that was also carried out by Professor Steven J.
Katusa’s research shows that by practicing meditation and focusing on the thought “I am in control of my own body,” you can improve your health and performance in almost any activity you take on.
This is one of those studies that I have to second-guess because I’m not an expert on it. But I’d wager that the effect isn’t as big as it seems to be. The reason for this is because when you’re exercising, you’re actually exercising your mind and body at the same time.
As I said in a previous post, there is a lot of misinformation about meditation. In particular, the idea that meditation can be a cure for your depression is a myth. Meditation can be used to relax, but it cannot be used to cure depression. So the idea that meditation can lower your risk of dying of heart disease is also false.
Meditation is simply one more tool in our toolbox that we use. If we can use it well, it will help us be more effective. But using it is not always the end goal. The end goal is to be in the best possible physical and mental condition.
