redgreenvines said:

it is physically lower than the thymus gland. We do not think with our glands, meditation is a form of thinking.

Be good.

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You probably mean lower then the thyroid. It is not a coincidence that both MCO and Chakras can correlate the heart-center to the thymus. (nice try though, keep practicing, and props for correlating metta)

teknix said:

redgreenvines said:

it is physically lower than the thymus gland. We do not think with our glands, meditation is a form of thinking.

Be good.

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...[image deleted 100% arbitrary assignment of correlations not worth repeating]...

You probably mean lower then the thyroid. It is not a coincidence that both MCO and Chakras can correlate the heart-center to the thymus. (nice try though, keep practicing, and props for correlating metta)

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sorry your image is oversimplistic as are your ideas
here is the thymus gland it is well below the thyroid
and the throat center (for karuna practice) is above the thymus but below the thyroid



metta concentration is about 3 centimeters below the sternum joint of the ribs as depicted here


your reference material is based upon synthetic new age attempts to heap value on yogic priciples using erroneous quasi medical projection.

as I indicated before heart center is lower than thymus and all chakras are functionally arbitrary as focus locations for concentration, however the traditional practices that use chakras are fairly specific.

I know of both the traditional assignments and of the underlying arbitrariness.

be good.

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metta concentration is about 3 centimeters below the sternum joint of the ribs as depicted here

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Whatever you want to tell yourself, lol.



Good luck with your practice.

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The heart Chakra (or Anahata in Sanskrit) is, well, associated with the heart but also with the thymus.
http://blissreturned.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/the-heart-chakra/

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Contemporary instruction for the cultivation of loving-kindness – such as is found in the works of Sharon Salzberg,[11] the Triratna Buddhist Community's Kamalashila,[5] and Matthieu Ricard[12] – is often based in part on a method found in Buddhaghosa's 5th c. CE Pāli exegetical text, the Path to Purification (Pali:Visuddhimagga), Chapter IX.[13][14] This traditional approach is best known for identifying successive stages of meditation during which one progressively cultivates loving-kindness towards:

    oneself[15]
    a good friend[16]
    a "neutral" person
    a difficult person[17]
    all four of the above equally[18][19]
    and then gradually the entire universe[20]

One should avoid choosing someone to whom one is sexually attracted or who is dead.[21] For a "neutral" person, choose someone that you might come into contact with every day, but who does not give rise to strong positive nor strong negative emotions. For a "difficult" person, traditionally choose an enemy, but avoid choosing a person who has just wrecked your life, unless you are very well grounded in awareness.

Matthieu Ricard has recommended that metta practitioners choose to meditate on a person for whom it is very easy to feel unconditional love and compassion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mett%C4%81

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metta concentration is about 3 centimeters below the sternum joint of the ribs as depicted here

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There is a very distinctly different sensation at the location you describe from this perspective. I bet if you do some more searching you can find out what.

(P.S. Inner smile isn't fixed to the thymus gland anymore then awareness is)

Heres a vid of Mantak Chia trying to point towards it for you.

If you weren't pretending to know more then you do then I would probably just tell you, but the way it looks you would just use it to pretend better.

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The thymus is a specialized organ of the immune system. The thymus "educates" T-lymphocytes (T cells), which are critical cells of the adaptive immune system.

Each T cell attacks a foreign substance which it identifies with its receptor. T cells have receptors which are generated by randomly shuffling gene segments. Each T cell attacks a different antigen. T cells that attack the body's own proteins are eliminated in the thymus. Thymic epithelial cells express major proteins from elsewhere in the body, and T cells that respond to those proteins are eliminated through programmed cell death (apoptosis).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thymus

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redgreenvines said:

meditation is a form of thinking.

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Short overview of thyroid homeostasis.[1]

The hypothalamic–pituitary–thyroid axis (HPT axis for short, aka thyroid homeostasis or thyrotropic feedback control) is part of the endocrine system responsible for the regulation of metabolism.

As its name suggests, it depends upon the hypothalamus, the pituitary gland, and the thyroid gland.

The hypothalamus senses low circulating levels of thyroid hormone (T3 and T4) and responds by releasing thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH). The TRH stimulates the pituitary to produce thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH). The TSH, in turn, stimulates the thyroid to produce thyroid hormone until levels in the blood return to normal. Thyroid hormone exerts negative feedback control over the hypothalamus as well as anterior pituitary, thus controlling the release of both TRH from hypothalamus and TSH from anterior pituitary gland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothalamic%E2%80%93pituitary%E2%80%93thyroid_axis

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yeah said:

redgreenvines said:

meditation is a form of thinking.

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Isn't that cute... BUT IT'S WRONG!

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yeah said:

redgreenvines said:

meditation is a form of thinking.

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Isn't that cute... BUT IT'S WRONG!

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