Tuesday, October 2, 2018

The secret science of Mindfulness meditation, deactivating the Default Mode Network: James Kingsland and Gary Weber

Your Default Mode Network is shown to decrease - less mind chatter

interview youtube on his 2016 book on meditation
https://plasticbrainblog.com/ James Kingsland

Default Mode Network meditation youtube  talk
Gary Weber, student of Ramana Maharshi

http://happinessbeyondthought.blogspot.com/

If you happen to have an experience out of phase with the predominant Theta frequency at that time, you won't store it.
Secret of long-term memory storage - Phase Coherence.
  Only about 5% of the energy consumed by the brain is used for activities such as reading, or routine tasks; the vast majority of the energy used by the brain (about 20% of the entire body's energy consumption) is consumed continuously by a very busy brain. The "doing" that we attach so much attention to, consumes very little energy. The figure, which appeared in the March 2010 Scientific American, shows the difference.

 deactivating the Default Mode Network enables greater brain focus.
No Thoughts, No Time - part 1

No Thoughts, part 2

 Yes, the DMN shuts down w/the serotonergic psychedelics. we have some really excellent research on magic mushrooms/psilocybin from Europe that matches the long-term nondual meditation studies done @ Yale.

Myths about nonduality and science

science of mindfulness talk by psychologist and meditation teacher Kelly McGonigal, PhD, 
Increase Brain Neuron Density!

It changes gene expression!

Meditation regrows telomeres (so genes live longer - as longevity).

Mindbody Meditation

An hour more sleep OR meditation - gives more will power to resist relapse of addiction

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