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Scientists claim they discovered the “gate of consciousness”

Scientists claim they discovered the “gate of consciousness” | The Psychogenyx News Feed | Scoop.it
Because we can’t possibly absorb every single stimulus, our brain lets some signals filter through to our consciousness. But where in the brain does that take place?
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Your Brain Peforms Better When It Slows Down, with Steven Kotler | Big Think

Your Brain Peforms Better When It Slows Down, with Steven Kotler | Big Think | The Psychogenyx News Feed | Scoop.it
Best-selling author Steven Kotler discusses hypofrontality -- literally the slowing of the brain's prefrontal cortex -- and how it allows one to enter an optimal state of consciousness, known as flow. As Kotler explains, flow refers to those moments of total absorption when we get so focused on the task at hand that everything else disappears
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Science Just Confirmed One of Buddhism's Main Ideas

Science Just Confirmed One of Buddhism's Main Ideas | The Psychogenyx News Feed | Scoop.it
Buddhist Monks have known for thousands of years what science is just now learning: the mind can be changed by training it.
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