Content

Meditation

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

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

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