Mindfulness Can Change the Way Our Brain Functions on Autopilot

When we have people sit in a brain scanner, typically a functional i resience skinner, r femai, and don't ask them to do anything in particular, two things happen. The first thing that happens is that people's mind wander. We talked about that. And the second thing that we can see in the brain scan themselves is that thereis a network of regions that get recruited in those moments of mind wandering. Rit: One of the reasons mindfulness, in meditation in particular, can be so powerful is that it's really changing the way our brain functions on autopilot.