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Juan Santoyo - Practice and Peace

Mind & Life

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Meditation

i remember being in the scanner. The idea is to, as i recall, there wasn't really much instruction about how to try to modulate the signal. But you you just try different things, kind of mentally or experientially, and then you can see it the signal change either up or down. So that's the basic process of nerve feedback. And am i remembering from that paper that one of the big takehoms was associating an experience of effort, like efforting, with m activity in this particular brain region? That might be part of why, like, reduce the effort is is part of what happens in meditation.

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