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#84: The Brain of a Mental Olympian - Elena Antonova, PhD

The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology

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Eye Movement Paradigm

The brain is a kind of this predictive engine that tries to minimize free energy or minimize the predictive error essentially. In every moment, unless we practice and that's very mindful, we have this sense of anticipation about what will happen in the next moment. We never really experienced the next moment in its openness of possibilities to experience anything. This is one of the mechanisms by which it said the experience of chronic pain or depression is perpetuated because I find expect,. even if it's not conscious, and it's often unconscious expect to feel the same pain in my back for example.

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