Meditation explained simply Meditation, from focal meditation to mindfulness entails the avoidance of all conscious discursive or unpredictable transitive (act-outcome) or ‘what if’ decision making or judgement that represents past, present and future judgments that can easily transition into perseverative thought (i.e. regret, distraction, and worry). In other words, meditation is reducing discursive thinking by being in the moment or ‘mindful’. The avoidance of discursive thinking or ‘mind wandering’ prevents the development of future perseverative conflicts and results in the covert musculature becoming inactive, or a pleasurable state of rest. Relaxation is achieved by avoiding discursive judgment rather than all judgment, while the subsequent pursuit of purposive non-discursive or meaningful behavior sustains and enhances the positive affect due to relaxation. (This is exemplified in cognitive strategies such as savoring, loving-kindness mediation, and flow experiences that couple positive ideation with relaxed states) Thus meditation, to be effective, must represent a dual cognitive strategy that couples the inhibition of discursive thinking with subsequent non-discursive or meaningful judgment or thought. A more formal explanation from a neurologically based learning theory is provided on pp. 44-52 in a little open-source book on the psychology of rest linked below. (The flow experience is discussed on pp. 82-87.) www.scribd.com/doc/284056765/The-Book-of-Rest-The-Odd-Psychology-of-Doing-Nothing
Summary: 1. the hub of mind-wandering is the hippocampus; 2. less controlled wanderings are mostly carried out by the brain stem; 3. more controlled wanderings are mostly carried out by the frontal lobe.
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Meditation explained simply
Meditation, from focal meditation to mindfulness entails the avoidance of all conscious discursive or unpredictable transitive (act-outcome) or ‘what if’ decision making or judgement that represents past, present and future judgments that can easily transition into perseverative thought (i.e. regret, distraction, and worry). In other words, meditation is reducing discursive thinking by being in the moment or ‘mindful’. The avoidance of discursive thinking or ‘mind wandering’ prevents the development of future perseverative conflicts and results in the covert musculature becoming inactive, or a pleasurable state of rest. Relaxation is achieved by avoiding discursive judgment rather than all judgment, while the subsequent pursuit of purposive non-discursive or meaningful behavior sustains and enhances the positive affect due to relaxation. (This is exemplified in cognitive strategies such as savoring, loving-kindness mediation, and flow experiences that couple positive ideation with relaxed states) Thus meditation, to be effective, must represent a dual cognitive strategy that couples the inhibition of discursive thinking with subsequent non-discursive or meaningful judgment or thought.
A more formal explanation from a neurologically based learning theory is provided on pp. 44-52 in a little open-source book on the psychology of rest linked below. (The flow experience is discussed on pp. 82-87.)
www.scribd.com/doc/284056765/The-Book-of-Rest-The-Odd-Psychology-of-Doing-Nothing
Summary:
1. the hub of mind-wandering is the hippocampus;
2. less controlled wanderings are mostly carried out by the brain stem;
3. more controlled wanderings are mostly carried out by the frontal lobe.