of the clinical research on mindfulness identified five major mechanisms underlying positive change: relaxation, acceptance, affect tolerance, behavior change, and meta-cognitive awareness/insight. A more recent wave of neuroscientific research correlates these psychological effects with specific brain changes (Lutz et al., 2007). Taken together, a
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Advanced Meditation Alters Consciousness and Our Basic Sense of Self
Matthew D. Sacchetscientificamerican.com
Melanie Boly, a neurologist and neuroscientist at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is painstakingly collecting EEG data from long-term Buddhist meditators during a state known as pure presence, an experience with no self, no discursive thoughts, and no perceptual content except for a luminous expanse, an empty mirror.
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