Neuroplasticity, Meditation & the Predictive Brain - Ruben Laukkonen, PhD | The FitMind Podcast

[@FranciscoVasquezRojas]

I wanted to say, although I see now this conversation took place over 2 years ago, this has been the most informative conversation about how the mind (brain?) works that I've come across so far. This is extremely helpful to me to understand many of the stages I've gone through. I suppose after hearing this conversation, this mind is tweaking its model to better make sense of all the mysterious new ways it's been operating hahaha! Sooo helpful, thank you!!!! Yeah for researchers, yeah for podcasters, and interested listeners!!! We're getting through the kinks and hiccups and growing up little by little. 🎉

[@Wuwei1969]

Thank youu both, it was delightful!

[@GalenSchultzSA]

Just by observing your facial body language, is enough to know that you guys are truly sharing some amazing insights for all of us. Thank you. I smiled the whole way through :)

[@SladkaPritomnost]

yeah it's catchy.

[@suhtetko5915]

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[@houssamnaji-o7m]

thank you

[@majcol1922]

Very informative thank you

[@VeritableVagabond]

I appreciate your interviews. Ruben mentions self-inquiry. If you're taking guest requests, I can totally recommend Dr. Angelo Dillulo. He'd be cool to have on the podcast.

[@soldatnerd]

Now I understand why I wasn't entering in the jhanas. I did do nothing/choiceless awareness wherein even jhanic states seemed like too much effort or doing something. The problem is that it seems like doing nothing didn't provide that much insight or change in me. The habitual patterns still persisted because I didn't take the time to deconstruct them and replace them with something wholesome. It's interesting because on the spectrum of awareness and attention, both extremes of doing nothing and concentration are rather similar. In doing nothing practice you don't even have enough attention to see directly what the mind is doing, so the habitual tendencies don't really change unless you get really invested and deep into the practice to the point that those habitual tendencies also take too much effort. With concentration you are so one pointed into the object that you lose awareness of everything else, leading to the same deal, you are not actually directly seeing the workings of the mind. I think both will eventually lead to cessation but the more sensible and practical option is to find the middle of these extremes, enough attention to see things arise and pass away but not so much that you lose awareness of everything else. I assume this is what is meant by yoking samatha and vipassana, letting go of the unwholesome and replacing it with the wholesome, you can see the arising and passing away directly while also changing the deeply held patterns that perpetuate your craving.

[@NurseLackey]

Appreciate the conversation on impermanence

[@titussteenhuisen8864]

Predictive mind - I experience a most likely future, access it involuntarily often dependent the presence of another person, it will be something that happens in my and or in the other persons future.

[@John_Smith0]

very interesting, thank you!

[@leochiang6659]

Will there be new podcast episodes? It’s been a full year since the last one

[@MPans]

I know ! 😢

[@titussteenhuisen8864]

Origin Thoughts are like invisible physical particles.They exist from the past can come from others made by the body and created and controlled by the mind. - my idea Do you have a quantum model like orchestrated objective reduction? Rodger Penrose and Stuart Hamerhoff.

[@paulwyrough2765]

Liam! Where did you go? 😢

[@MPans]

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[@dharmayogaashram979]

In what religion is one practicing this meditation? Not honest to distort the meditation practices of specific religions.

[@charlemagnetheFranks]

Psalms 82 :6 🪔I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. John 10:34-36.🤷‍♂️ Maybe if you realize you are a part of God you would realize it's not religion it's life. A beautiful tapestry of darks and contrasting colors.🌄🎨 . Bob Ross moment.

[@tuanvunguyen906]

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