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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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inhibition, working memory, and set-shifting.
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The Bayesian Brain and Meditation
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This finding has been reproduced innumerable times since then, and in 2013 slow-wave prefrontal activity was certified by the Food and Drug Administration as a biomarker for ADHD. Slow frontal lobe electrical activity explains why these kids have poor executive functioning: Their rational brains lack proper control over their emotional brains, whic
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As awareness is trained, it is more accessible for self-redirection
Emily J. Wolf • Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy: Accelerating Healing and Transformation
What I told people was this: You can pick up these practices any time. They are free. They are simple. They require no special equipment, no particular location. They are always available to you. You can use them to start protecting your attention and working memory today. If you’re already “deployed”—in other words, in the throes of a high-demand
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