Neuroscience of Mindfulness: Its Powers and Limits @ Comprehensivist Wednesdays

Neuroscience of Mindfulness: Its Powers and Limits, a Conversation with Sanjay.

See the earlier presentation by Sanjay on Neuroscience here: https://youtu.be/R0Na_YKthmw

Six introductory questions:

1. What is meditation, and specifically Mindfulness meditation?
2. Is there an effective & simple form of Mindfulness anyone can learn?
3. Why does our mind wander, and intrusive thoughts emerge?
4. Can mindfulness truly calm our brain, and stop all distractions?
5. After long-term practice of mindfulness, what changes in our brain? What do these changes help with?
6. Can a "state of mindfulness" become a positive recurring habit?

We will explore these concepts:

♦ What occurs in the brain during Meditative states? Which brain regions are activated & inactivated?
♦ The nature and significance of the Default Mode Network (DMN), a possibly important set of distinct brain regions.
♦ We practice Mindfulness mostly during states of Consciousness. We will explore strong correlations between both, and take an initial look at Consciousness.
♦ How does our mind remove negative/toxic emotions & thoughts -- analogous to how our body removes toxins?

RESOURCES to see, beforehand (review one, or all in under 30 mins):

♦ "Neuroscience of Meditation, Mindfulness, and Compassion" (14 min video)
https://youtu.be/ca0uLyRTrQ0

♦ "A Wandering Mind is an Unhealthy Mind" (1 page paper)
https://tinyurl.com/WanderngMind

♦ "Achieving Mindfulness" (3 minute video)
https://youtu.be/imFaoDu8rDs

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Welcome to the series "Comprehensivist Wednesdays". Transdisciplinarity, Renaissance humanism, homo universalis, and Polymathy are some of the ways of describing this approach which Buckminster Fuller called Comprehensivity and described as “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive”.

See past Meetups on 52 Living Ideas YouTube Channel:
July 15: Why Be a Comprehensivist? — a Panel Discussion.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/qjwTy6pGkNA
‪July 22: Louis Sullivan’s Ideas: Art of Expression & Form Follows Function with Architect Sherri Tracinski & Shrikant‬
Watch it here: https://youtu.be/oM8vbQQ-4MU
‪Jul 29: Humanity's Great Traditions of Inquiry and Action with CJ‬ Fearnley
Watch it here: https://youtu.be/8RuHE_3FMUs
‪Aug 5: Optimize Everything: Interview with mathematician Spencer Greenberg on Psychology, society, technology & science‬
‪Aug 12: The Necessities and Impossibilities of being a Comprehensivist‬
‪Aug 19: Polymaths in 21st Century with Angela‬
‪Aug 26: Art Education: Individual & Society with Karen ‬
‪Sep 2: Neuroscience: Why are our Habits so Powerful? with Sanjay‬
‪Sep 9: Four Cardinal Greek Virtues in Visual Art & Mythology by John Roth
‪Sep 16: Literature and our lives: the Fiction of Relationship‬
‪Sep 23: Lightening Talks (Talk for 5 minutes about what you are exploring)‬
Sep 30: The Great Conversation & Syntopicon of Mortimer Adler with Shrikant

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