Meditation {Content}

Principle

Concentration or self-mastery is simply a skill to improve, like any other. Meditation is a technique to do so.

Schema described the unfocused process gradually betting consciously aligned

Sessions

• 28/04/2017 : focus on consciousness, list during IntroductionToMindfulnessForAgileAndITProfessionalsApril2016 wonder how good the analogy with monitoring of process (top, iotop, ptrace), network (wireshark), distributed process (AWS console), etc is
• 01/04/2016 : 2x10min during IntroductionToMindfulnessForAgileAndITProfessionalsApril2016
• between January and March 2016 ~8times : ~1h in ~3x10min nearby Merode
• 19/03/2012 : 10min
• 07/03/2012 : 07min
• 02/03/2012 : 10min
• 29/02/2012 : 07min
• 28/02/2012 : 05min
• 10/01/2012 : details to add

Embedded in Exercises#Meditation

How

• relaxation process
  • including physiology
    • balance
      • core muscles
      • spine
    • breathing
• consciously ignore external noise
• remember the objective of the process
  • which can be itself gaining better focus
• understanding Cognition#BrainHijackers

Own affordances

• one pathway across networks
• self-defined homeostasis baseline
• sharp blade
• flat lake
• "The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear."

To do

• Consider the wiki as an affordance too
  • especially thanks to
    • BackEnd (focus point, objective)
    • MemoryRecipe (repetition of cycles, homeostasis)
• meditation as a process to improve Seedea:Content/Concepttreefmri effectiveness
• consider if its goes beyond
  • sharpening focus
  • improving proprioception

See also

• Cognition#GoalFocusAttention
• Health#Sleep
• Paroles Zen
• Lean Thinking
• Wikipedia:Flow (psychology) or "being in the zone"
• Wikipedia:Mindfulness (psychology)
  • Ellen Langer
• Change your Mind Change your Brain: The Inner Conditions by for Authentic Happiness by Matthieu Ricard, Google Tech Talk 2007
  • Matthieu Ricard website
• Deep Concentration in Formal Meditation and Daily Life (Theory and Practice) by Shinzen Young, Google Tech Talk April 2010
  • ~min3 connecting posture through the Wikipedia:Reticular activating system (RAS) and level of awareness
    • see PostureMinder in my Tools page
  • ~min38 uses an example of how one could do to fully understand plants
    • very similar to LayeredModel
  • ~min60 criticizing video games or TV form of concentration as it does not "build" the skill
  • ~min69 mentioning "being in the zone" in sport and music and "flow state"
    • typically not generalized but rather limited to the performance and very restricted in time and action
  • earlier Google Tech Talk in January 2010 Divide and Conquer: How the Essence of Mindfulness Parallels the Nuts and Bolts of Science
  • his dedicated website Basic Mindfulness Home Practice Program
• Meditation as Medicine: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction An Approach to Stress Reduction, Chronic Pain and Illness by Bob Stah, Google Tech Talk May 2010
• "your brain on meditation" (not medication)
  • link with cognitive science (cf Cognition)
    • in particular brain imaging studies
  • Cognitive Neuroscience of Mindfulness Meditation by Philippe Goldin, Google Tech Talk 2008
• Your Brain at Work by David Rock, Google Tech Talks 2009
  • ~min11 "You need to be able to notice the spikes in dopamine to be able to notice information [...] with a loud brain all the time you are not allowed to see the subtle signals, don't come with a quiet cellphone at a loud party [...] The ability to have these insights very much comes to this ability to quiet down your overall mental activity at anytime. Those people with a strong cognitive control have a lot more insights."
  • ~min46 "develop the capacity to control your attention"
• Meditation reduces the emotional impact of pain, study finds, ScienceDaily June 2010
• Hannes Hempel working on Workgroup Altered States of Consciousness and Meditation Research, Bender Institute of Neuroimaging
• http://aft.benetou.fr/Pratiques/AmeliorationsCognitives (Wikipedia:nootropic)
  • with a risk of dependency on chemicals
• The Women's Meditation Tradition in Tibet by Wangdrak Rinpoche, Google Tech Talk June 2010
  • participate to a discussion wth Ani Chosang during Saint-Maur en toute(s) liberté(s) 2009
• Open Buddha