Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · yt0.726

   i'm determined to test how firm your mind really is seneca says i will give you the same instructions that great men have given set yourself a period of some days in which you will be content with very small amounts of food and of the cheapest kinds and with coarse and comfortable clothing and say to yourself is this what i was afraid of so in the same letter seneca claims that one must really do the exercise that this is actual training and also that is not enough to do it merely like an exercise of the body to use a more familiar example it is not enough to practice what we call today interm…

   yt/3Wmo8D72cro-hadot-spiritual-exercises-and-philosophy-as-a-way-of-life/transcript.txt

2. 02 · _intake0.726

   So Alex had inspired me to try and practice Qi Gong, beginning with the simplest form of meditation. He is the most centered and confident person that I have ever encountered so far in my life, by far. He attributes it almost entirely to his daily practice, so naturally, I have become very interested, and I do believe that I have been experiencing a tremendous benefit as a result of this practice. The effects are clearest to me when I do not take ten to thirty minutes of my morning to get quiet, still, go inward, and to connect with what he calls “the sun above my head” and God; which I think …

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/kruse-longevity-farm-event.md

3. 03 · blog0.723

   Ifit doesn't or even if it does read Trance-Formations listed at the end of this post. The authors go over this in detail and in a very skillful and clear fashion. Let this stand the more accurate you are, so much the better; a really incorrect statement or blatant failure is apt to be disruptive. INDUCTIONS The purpose of an induction is to focus awareness on something and gradually move through to evoking the intended results. The methods are many and varied. Very often the focal point is relaxation. Progressive relaxation consists of deliberately tensing and relaxing (sometimes just relaxin…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/internet-book-of-shadows-hypnosis-101-internet-sacred-text-archive.md

4. 04 · pubmed0.723

   The accuracy of subjective reports, especially those involving introspection of one's own internal processes, remains unclear, and research has demonstrated large individual differences in introspective accuracy. It has been hypothesized that introspective accuracy may be heightened in persons who engage in meditation practices, due to the highly introspective nature of such practices. We undertook a preliminary exploration of this hypothesis, examining introspective accuracy in a cross-section of meditation practitioners (1-15,000 hrs experience). Introspective accuracy was assessed by compar…

   pubmed/PMID-23049790-meditation-experience-predicts-introspective-accuracy/info.md

5. 05 · yt0.723

   And that is why also in the practice of certain forms of Zen meditation, there is a rugged struggle of the person to get beyond all formulations whatsoever, to throw away all hang-ups, to uh endure long hours of sitting with aching knees and uh perpetual frustration in trying to get hold of what all this is about. with tremendous earnestness, I've got to find out what the mystery of life is, who I am, what this energy is. And you go and go and he knocks down every formulation you bring to him because you don't need one. Only the ordinary person on hearing that you don't need one will forget al…

   yt/Z7eTeIt_HiU-full-lecture-by-alan-watts-on-buddhism-zen-reconsidered/transcript.txt

6. 06 · blog0.723

   It is common for an induction to take ten or twenty minutes with a participant who has not been hypnotized much before or is unused to your style. Signs of effectiveness the participant's responses match your description. ... and that makes you feel really silly may be met with a smile; depictions of relaxation are matched with visible decreases in tension. Requests to picture scenes usually evoke rapid eye movement. If you ask your partner to do a lot of talking you will notice changes in their manner of speaking; it becomes quieter slower perhaps a little less well enunciated. Depending on w…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/internet-book-of-shadows-hypnosis-101-internet-sacred-text-archive.md

7. 07 · yt0.722

   So that's the time that you want to allocate so that you can get the task done because you'll be much more efficient if you operate this way. Number 14, this one's a big one. When you have a busy day, what's one of the things that you can do to reset? Everybody can stand up, take a deep breath, and breathe in and breathe out. If your office is next to a window, try to get a window that opens. Europe does a great job with casement windows. United States, we're terrible at that. Everybody should have a window. If you don't have a window, then you run outside and take your break. But I want you t…

   yt/iRlFvArtcfU-dr-jack-kruse-keynote-speech-bitcoin-prague-2025-time-is-you/transcript.txt

8. 08 · blog0.720

   Thefirst is MARCHING: the thump, thump, thump beat literally generates self-hypnosis and thus great susceptibility to suggestion. 520 Thesecond thought stopping technique is MEDITATION. If you spend an hour to an hour and a half a day in meditation, after a few weeks, there is a great probability that you will not return to full beta consciousness. You will remain in a fixed state of alpha for as long as you continue to meditate. I'm not saying this is bad--if you do it yourself. It may be very beneficial. But it is a fact that you are causing your mind to go flat. I've worked with meditators …

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/internet-book-of-shadows-mind-control-techniques-dick-s-internet-sacred-text-arc.md

9. 09 · yt0.720

   And so anytime we replace a thought or a behavior with something, you potentially are removing the the possibility that that default state was stress, right? So I'm I'm asking you to do this now because I think that positive effects in science um sometimes seem obvious like oh you you know maybe pray for a certain number of minutes or meditate you get an effect. But there's also a question of what what the opportunity cost was what what weren't you doing in that uh five minutes that might have that might have been detrimental. And there's a reason I'm setting it up this way um that we'll get t…

   yt/Whe2Jh9q6jI-science-health-benefits-of-belief-in-god-religion-dr-david-d/transcript.txt

10. 10 · pubmed0.719

    Strong conceptual and theoretical connections have been made between meditation practice, mindfulness and lucid dreaming. However, only a handful of empirical studies have evaluated the relationship between lucid dreaming and meditation, and conclusions remain tempered by methodological limitations. Here we evaluate the relationship between meditation, mindfulness and lucid dream frequency using several complementary methods. First, using a cross-sectional design, we evaluate differences in lucid dream frequency between long-term meditators and meditation naïve individuals. Second, we evaluate…

    pubmed/PMID-31058200-increased-lucid-dream-frequency-in-long-term-meditators-but/info.md