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The very Zen-like Yogi In 3 Steps

Summary

, 13 min

A three-step way to handle thoughts still unraveling in the background of deeply relaxed meditation: heart rate variability resonant breathing, the rule of not starting, pursuing or stopping a thought, and opening peripheral vision to induce the right hippocampus. The eighty-twenty rule explains how body relaxation calms the brain.

In this video

Teaches
Mind chatterHakalau
Discusses
HRV ResonanceSubconsciousFreeze Response80-20 ruleExpansionRight hippocampus

Key moments

00:00Thoughts still unraveling under deep relaxation00:42A student watches a thought pass in the freeze response02:17HRV breathing and the freeze response relax the body03:26The eighty-twenty rule: five messages back to the brain04:06Unconscious material behind you; thoughts like floating clouds04:47Don't start, don't pursue, don't stop a thought05:55Why not beat the cloud down: control is the wrong side of the brain07:38Look at one dot and open up peripheral vision09:04Experiment: something you want but can't have09:57Putting the three steps together11:10Right hippocampus: absorption, Samadhi and pure silence