unlocking your meditation potential (neuroscience)

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Meditation is difficult because we get distractions.

We always feel the impulse to do something or get away from something.

The orbital cortex is what makes it so we value an action or thing.

The polar cortex is what allows us step back from ourselves to calmly adjust to stimuli and situations internal and external.

The polar cortex inhibits the reactions we have to avoid or approach things and become neutral yet aware.

The ACC (anterior cingulate cortex) then relaxes to stop seeing errors everywhere.

This allows the DLPFC (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex) to stop following rigid rules freeing up working memory.

The TPJ (temporal parietal junction) which is the radar of the vision system then is controlled to stop us from switching tasks and focus on what is at hand.

After a while we begin to have synchrony of gamma waves.

In advance meditative states practitioners can increase gamma waves to 200 time above baseline of normal control groups.

A person can begin to increase gamma wave activity by what is known as open monitoring, accepting all stimuli coming in but not reacting to it.

This makes the polar cortex thicker and stronger in deactivation of error signals, increasing working memory, revaluation of stimuli and reducing task switching.

The calmness of inducing open monitoring will boost gamma wave synchrony reducing stress, and tension in the body.

This is also good for physiological awareness inside the body to control unconscious processes.

Impermanence is what happens when we know stimuli is temporary so we become less averse to it and less attached to it. Bliss becomes possible.
 
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