06-06-2019, 12:19 PM
2 major brain centres (conventionally and colloquially referred to as "the emotional centre"Flow State Training Program Review/ and "the reptile brain" or the survival instinct The lack of communication between these 4 major brain centres, or to express it another way the lack of brain balance, is the underlying evolutionary and neurological reason why we experience life the way we do, why we suffer so much, and as a species why we inflict so much suffering on each other. It is also
the root cause of all of our personal internal conflict and inner resistance or immunity to change.As a massive simplification and generalisation the average person's brain is just not balanced, i.e. the different centres of the brain literally do not - frequently cannot - communicate.So improved and more frequent and conscious communication between these different brain centres is the route to peace, insight and all the benefits and other "goodies"
quite rightly attributed to meditation.The reason why meditation takes so long to deliver significant and lasting personal change is because the meditator is, (quite literally) at the physiological level, re-wiring or re-routing the neurological pathways in their own brain. Initially this is primarily between left and right brain, and then from the balance achieved there, between all 4 major brain centres. So meditation is fundamentally a re-programming
of the brain.This may all sound very reductionist, unglamorous and unspiritual, but at a physiological and neurological level when we meditate we are strengthening the corpus callosum - the tissue containing and comprising the neural connections between the left and right brain.A simplistic developmental analogy of all this is to compare or contrast the "average" or "normal" human brain with a baby, and the brain of the Zen master with an experienced mountaineer.
https://asrightasrain.co/flow-state-trai...am-review/
the root cause of all of our personal internal conflict and inner resistance or immunity to change.As a massive simplification and generalisation the average person's brain is just not balanced, i.e. the different centres of the brain literally do not - frequently cannot - communicate.So improved and more frequent and conscious communication between these different brain centres is the route to peace, insight and all the benefits and other "goodies"
quite rightly attributed to meditation.The reason why meditation takes so long to deliver significant and lasting personal change is because the meditator is, (quite literally) at the physiological level, re-wiring or re-routing the neurological pathways in their own brain. Initially this is primarily between left and right brain, and then from the balance achieved there, between all 4 major brain centres. So meditation is fundamentally a re-programming
of the brain.This may all sound very reductionist, unglamorous and unspiritual, but at a physiological and neurological level when we meditate we are strengthening the corpus callosum - the tissue containing and comprising the neural connections between the left and right brain.A simplistic developmental analogy of all this is to compare or contrast the "average" or "normal" human brain with a baby, and the brain of the Zen master with an experienced mountaineer.
https://asrightasrain.co/flow-state-trai...am-review/