The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
but one of the reasons is when you stop taking in exteroceptive information from the outside world, by closing your eyes and focusing inward, as they say, you start paying attention to your breathing cadence, you start directing your mind's attention to your heart rate, and if you can start to perceive your heart beating. You actually are very quickly strengthen the vagal connections between the body and the brain.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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And I think this is one of the reasons why meditation is powerful. When you stop taking in extterosceptive information, information from the outside world by closing your eyes and focusing inward as they say, you start paying attention to your breathing cadence. You start directing your mind's attention to your heart rate. And if you can start to perceive your heart beating, you actually are very quickly strengthen the veagal connections between the body and the brain.