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Strengthen your prefrontal cortex so "you" have more control over your urges. You typically do this with meditation.
by sosodev 1y ago
Strengthen your prefrontal cortex so "you" have more control over your urges. You typically do this with meditation.
- pyrophoenix 1y agoOr you just set a firewall and block these 2 websites ^^ (Welcome to the club)
- mirekrusin 1y agoYour firewall seems broken.
- shermantanktop 1y agoMaybe they are texting from the embedded browser in their car's infotainment system? Never underestimate the creativity of a procrastinator.
- ipaddr 1y agoThey just used a proxy.
- guntars 1y agoThis was an interesting connection to me between meditation and neuroscience. Buddhists talk about the "monkey mind" that chatters incessantly. Well, that's the default mode network, part of your brain that is active when you're not engaged in a specific task, when you're thinking about self, others, past or future. A useful adaptation in our past environment for sure, but overactivity can be detrimental. The Buddhist solution is to mediate, to focus the attention on a singular thing and not be distracted by the chatter. That ability lives in the prefrontal cortex! It's able to override the DMN and it's something that can be trained by just exercising it.
- astrange 1y agoNot recommended if you're depressed/in a bad situation because you can just disassociate from everything instead of fixing it.
- willy_k 1y agoYou could just as (if not more) easily gain clarity into what you need to fix and how, and increase your ability to act on those insights.
- enaaem 1y agoAny special kind of meditation that is recommended?
- layer8 1y agoBasic mindfulness meditation should do the job: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness#Watching_the_breath,_body-scan_and_other_techniques https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness#Watching_the_breat...
- roenxi 1y agoWhile it is literally just sitting somewhere watching the breath it is easy to do things wrong like sitting concentrating hard or being bored instead of observing the boredom. The irony of doing nothing being a difficult skill. Anyone interested probably wants to find some serious mediators to talk to - Buddhist monks are recommended but there are others here and there.
- justanotherjoe 1y ago"Ora et Labora"