Our meditation group has been studying the neuroscience research on compassion meditation and default mode network changes, but we're realizing that intellectually understanding the brain mechanisms might be making us less present during actual practice. We keep analyzing our internal states instead of just being with them.
More people experience this than they realize.
Practitioners are discovering that knowledge about meditation's neural mechanisms can paradoxically interfere with the direct experience they're trying to cultivate.
“Where Are You with The neuroscience of meditation?”
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