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Stop forcing your mindfulness on me

Stop forcing your mindfulness on me

While mindfulness is very effective for some, it does absolutely nothing for others, and pushing it on them won’t change that.

Mindfulness as a practice today is loosely based on the Buddhist concept of Sati, as described in the Buddhist text the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. But as journalist and author Robert Wright points out, there isn’t a single word in the text that translates to “now” or “present,” which is central to its modern application.

“You won’t find anything about living in the moment, which is one of the main phrases used to describe [modern] mindfulness,” says Wright, who published a book on the topic, titled Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment. “On the other hand, I would say the way it’s taught today complies with the spirit of the early texts, more or less.”

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Mindfulness has lost its Buddhist roots, and it may not be doing you good

The mindfulness technique is being blindly sold and we are buying it hook line and sinker.

The problem with mindfulness - Neuroscience News

While those who promote mindfulness claim the practice offers massive amounts of health and psychological benefits, very little scientific e

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Me: Shit, why did I sleep all day? I was supposed to be getting better about that.

Roommate, eyebrow raised: Yesterday you walked around three times as much as you were used to because you were so well medicated with the right blend. Also, you got a flu shot. That can make you tired especially.

Me: Ohh that's why the band-aid is there!

Wheeeee, time agnosia! Between the fibromyalgia and ADHD, it's wild.

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PS, shout out to my allistic friends with all the same hyper- and dys- disorders but without the autism or ADHD.

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Random discussion in the world of my marriage:

I was trying to explain a thought on the interconnections between human neurology and animal brain structures, so husband helped out by supplying information about the physical structure of a brain.

But I wanted to include a talk about the evolution, so he veered off into the first organisms to have central nervous systems, like starfish, and suggested the brain would be like cutting open the starfish and wrapping it in fish with more advanced nervous systems like scallop, then tuna, and so on, so the stack resembled a brain. And suddenly he suggested different cuts of meat wrapping around each other, and wrapping it all in bacon, so now the neocortex is bacon.

And for some reason this was really funny. We considered a dish like that would go over well in gastropubs. Food metaphors. Have your brain on a skewer.

Since we are different styles of ADHD and autistic, and we've been together for wow over twenty years now, we can easily ride each other's thought tangents all the way through and especially when our special interests match up.

So suddenly this inside joke about literal brain meats that came out of a discussion about instinctive reactions and where in the brain they are and then why are they named like that and then how the brain all works together is my new go to explanation for how my ADHD brain works all the time.

Now I want seared ahi tuna, damn it, he cooks it in the cast iron skillet with scallops and it's amazing and I want to add bacon and call it a deconstructed brain structure.

At least the migraine is wearing down. Medication is good.

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Math Ability Can Be Predicted by Neurotransmitter Levels in The Brain, Study Finds

Math Ability Can Be Predicted by Neurotransmitter Levels in The Brain, Study Finds

Neurotransmitters are chemical substances crucial to the proper functioning of the brain, responsible for carrying messages between neurons

"...In the research, two neurotransmitters were analyzed: glutamate and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) – already known to relate to brain plasticity and our ability to learn – with researchers looking closely at the left intraparietal sulcus (IPS) part of the brain in particular.

Glutamate and GABA actually have complementary roles in the brain, because glutamate excites neurons, whereas GABA inhibits them, a balance that is thought to be important in taking on board new information.

What's more, the IPS has previously been linked to skill in mathematics, but here the team wanted to study this brain location and these neurotransmitters over a longer period of time, and in people rather than animal models.

"In contrast to previous studies on humans or animals that focused on narrower developmental stages, our cross-sectional-longitudinal study suggests that the link between plasticity and brain excitation and inhibition across different stages is unlikely to be immutable," says neuroscientist Roi Cohen Kadosh from the University of Oxford in the UK.

In other words, the relationship between these neurotransmitters and cognitive ability seems to change over time – in fact, it completely flips.

In the study, a total of 255 young people aged from six years old to university students were recruited as participants, with follow-up tests at a later date carried out by a subset of the group.

Combining the data from the first and second math tests with MRI scans showed that neurotransmitter levels recorded at the earlier date could predict math skill on the later date, an average of 1.5 years later.

In children higher GABA levels and lower glutamate levels were associated with being better at arithmetic, but in the older, adult volunteers it was those that showed lower GABA levels and higher glutamate levels in the IPS who performed the best at the math tasks they were given."

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What...

I mean, I know my GABA levels are so low I take supplements, and my Dyscalculia, Dysgeographica, and lack of spatial perceptions are extraordinarily serious, but-

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