The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
neuroplasticity involves triggering the neural plasticity, setting it in motion, but the actual rewiring of the brain and the reconfiguration of neurons that will allow that learning to be reflexive, that actually occurs during states of deep rest, like an NSDR and like deep sleep.
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focused attention with some agitation triggers neuroplasticity and learning but it's during sleep in particular deep sleep rapid eye movement sleep states of deep bre maybe in some forms of meditation that the actual rewiring takes place
A number of people asked, what can I do to increase plasticity? And that really comes in two forms. There's plasticity that we can access in sleep to improve rates of learning and depth of learning from the previous day or so. And there's this NSDR, Non-Sleep Deep Rest, that can be done without sleeping to improve rates of learning and depth of retention, et cetera.
It actually takes place in sleep, as well as sleep-like states like non-sleep deep rest and meditation, but especially in deep sleep and rapid eye movement sleep.