Where is the scientific proof of the effectiveness of training the mind? – PETER GAMMA (Director & Physiologist), MEDITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE SWITZERLAND (MRIS)

Last Updated on May 20, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

In 2004 a PNAS paper was published about extraordinary brain waves of high-level mediators:

Does this study which was presented on YouTube by Matthieu Ricard not suggest, that a person who suffers from anxiety and depression can be healed trough mind training?

But where are the scientific long-term studies who confirm this?
Has this been tried but has it been given up by scientists who are publicly funded?
And has it been done only by individuals who are privately funded?
We have observed phenomena which brought us to this hypothesis and we have described it here:

is a popular scientific book.
But where are the research studies who confirm these findings on the long term?
If these findings really where that revolutionary, would we not have sustainable research projects which investigate this topic sustainably and on the long term?
What we have sustainably are projects which seem to be privately funded with non-transparent goals performed by individuals:

But why does for instance Matthieu Ricard not talk anymore about meditation research?
Where does he continue to talk about this?
And Daniel Goleman who was interested in the topic science and meditation for around 50 years:

Daniel Goleman – best selling book author about science & meditation

who is now 78 years talks on YouTube about meditation.
Has he become a YouTube video maker?
Daniel Goleman is an expert for the topic science and mediation.
But all the same, is Daniel Goleman in the advisory board of research projects funded for instance by the Swiss National Science Foundation which would show that Mind Training changes our brain?
Studies which would show that mind training would change our brain in way that for instance patience from psychiatrist hospitals now are treated by mind training and spiritual teachers instead of drugs, but their not.
The are treated there with drugs, as they where treated before the PNAS paper from 2004.
And Richard R. Davidson who did research about anxiety, fear, depression and stress does not continue his research in these field with mind training.
Richard R. Davidson rebranded the topic and talks now of well being.
But for feeling well, can we not go to the holidays or into the wellness zone of a fitness center, for having the same effect?

Matthieu Ricard, Richard Davidson, Daniel Goleman, Mingour Rhinpoche but also Milarepa became best-selling authors..
But we do not know of ongoing long-term studies about the effect of meditation which would be confirmed convincingly by other groups than those of Richard R. Davidson.
So is not all of this difficult to proof or to disproof, it has not been proofen or disproofen, it is difficult to proof or disproof?
Are not many of these questions unanswered? Unanswered in scientific journals at the highest level?
And why has all of this not been studied in depth to this date, as the effect of pharmacological drugs has been studied in countless scientific studies around the word in in depth?
And would not pharmacologist Diego Hangartner from Switzerland be one of the first to participate in such scientific studies, and show up with a positive effect?
Currently we can find a picture of pharmacologist Diego Hangartner on his LinkedIn site:

So this this picture show him before his mind training?
But where can we find a picture of Diego Hangartner which would convince you to choose him for a teacher for training your mind?

If you are looking for a teacher who teaches you too look like Diego in the second picture, go for it.

You can contact him over his LinkedIn sit, and he offers courses also in Zurich in the Center of Mindfulness:

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