My wife and I both practice mindfulness meditation but we've been arguing about whether tracking our brain states with EEG devices is helping or hindering our practice. She thinks the data makes her more obsessive about 'performing' meditation correctly, while I find the neural feedback genuinely useful for deepening concentration.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two practitioners are discovering that scientific approaches to meditation can create unexpected tensions around authenticity versus optimization.
“Where Are You with The neuroscience of meditation?”
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