Summary
https://youtu.be/uhGZOa0nexk?si=2SjQE92EbnoJile7
The mind just won’t stop.
Even when everything around you is quiet, thoughts, images, and memories keep flowing. The more you try to silence them, the louder they seem to become.
What if the problem is not your mind, but the way you are trying to manage it?
In the video below you’ll learn:
Why your mind keeps producing thoughts
What the Default Mode Network is
Why stopping thoughts is not the real solution
How mindfulness changes your relationship with thinking
A simple practice to calm your mind naturally
The mind is not designed to be silent.
It is designed to simulate, anticipate and revisit.
The problem is not thinking, but believing every thought.
Through mindfulness we create space between us and our thoughts, and in that space calm emerges.
Watch the video below, English subtitles available — activate CC
Scientific references:
Brewer, J. A., Worhunsky, P. D., Gray, J. R., Tang, Y. Y., Weber, J., & Kober, H. (2011)
Meditation experience is associated with a reduced activity in the Default Mode Network, a brain network linked to self-referential thinking and mental rumination.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...
Questo studio mostra che la meditazione mindfulness è associata a una riduzione dell’attività del Default Mode Network, una rete cerebrale coinvolta nel pensiero autoreferenziale e nella ruminazione.
Tang, Y. Y. et al. (2007)
Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...
Anche brevi pratiche di meditazione possono migliorare la regolazione attentiva e ridurre lo stress
Even short meditation practices can improve attention and reduce stress.
Jon Kabat-Zinn (1990)
Full Catastrophe Living
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
Il protocollo MBSR è alla base di centinaia di studi scientifici sulla mindfulness e i suoi effetti su mente e corpo
The MBSR program is the foundation of hundreds of scientific studies on mindfulness and its effects on the brain and body
