Meditation - Do You Have a Task Switching Problem?

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Early on in meditation, especially if you're working on the concentration aspect, it's really important to sort of do one thing at a time and try to reduce distractions so that you can focus. But over time, as you work on meditation over years, it becomes very difficult to be distracted. Even stuff that seems very distracting like that can become a kind of deep focus experience that is a flow state. So I could talk about this forever, man. This is, I love it. Probably probably best place for people to find me is called meditationwithmichael.com. And my blog is called deconstructing yourself. If you want to read a lot of different things about meditation,

You have the power to wield neuroplasticity to your advantage.

Just as you can change your body at the atomic level by lifting weights, you can willfully alter your brain by...thinking in a certain way. In this episode we explore using your brain to change your brain at the level of neurons and synapses beyond what is possible through other methods like learning a new language or earning a degree in chemistry. With mindfulness meditation, the evidence seems to suggest that one can achieve a level of change that would be impossible otherwise. The more you attempt to focus, the better you get at focusing on command, and so a real change begins taking place - you slowly become able to think differently, to hold thoughts differently and to dismiss thoughts that before led to attention difficulties or what feels like unwanted thoughts or clutter - and that’s not magical or the result of shaking hands with a deity, it’s biological. Listen as author and meditation teacher Michael Taft explains the benefits of secular, scientific practice of modern mindfulness meditation

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