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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. Att
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The Bayesian Brain and Meditation
youtube.comWe now know that the brain’s capacity to learn, to adapt, to change in response to experience is so fundamental that it strikes the wrong note to say that an activity (like meditation) ‘changes the brain’ as if such change is special or unusual. In fact, everything we do changes the brain on some level. Or rather, the brain is constantly changing, ... See more
Transforming Minds
As awareness is trained, it is more accessible for self-redirection
Emily J. Wolf • Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy: Accelerating Healing and Transformation
No one is all good or all bad. If someone pushes your buttons, you choose to only see the bad. If someone makes you feel good, you choose to only see the good. We all contain multitudes though, and I refuse to stop seeing the complexity in my fellow humans.