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Feel the
movement
of your belly
as you
breathe.
Mind-Wandering, aka the
Brains Default State
What does the default state do?
Time travel
Narrative self-reflection and memory
Problem-solving (and problem-finding)
Evaluation and comparison
Social cognition
Social judgment
Grey blocks represent focus task intervals
Brzezicka 2013
University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland
239 women (age 49-66)
Evaluation System
Experiential System
Changing the Default
Examined resting state functional connectivity in
very experienced meditators (2500 hrs +) and less
experienced meditators (1000 hrs -)
Participants with more meditation experience
exhibited increased connectivity within attentional
networks (eg dlPFC) and self-awareness regions
(eg insula), and disruptions in usual default mode
connectivity.
Feel the
movement
of your belly
as you
breathe.
Mindfulness of suffering
13 Zen meditators/13 matched controls