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Rick Hanson: How to Reach the Upper Echelons of Human Potential

Into the Magic Shop

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You Know When You're Getting Things Done You Know What's Going on in the Brain

When people are doing task-oriented things often with a sense of inner pressure or they are mind-wandering and lost in the ruminator they're engaging the midline of the upper cortex. When you or i or anyone is really in the present moment practicing mindfulness being with things as they are not much sense of self just in the present less non-verbal activity more non-verbal we activate networks on the sides of the brain notably the right side for right-handed people. If a person takes on a little practice which i've started doing a lot of feeling your body as a whole that naturally pulls you out of midline cortical activity brings you into the present and reduces the sense of

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