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What's Actually Happening When You Meditate?
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If you want evidence before you invest your time, this one's for you. Wanting to know how something works before you commit isn't resistance. It's intelligence.
Episode Three is about what's actually happening in your body and brain when you meditate.
Your nervous system has two gears. The problem is that the alarm can't tell a house fire from burnt toast, and modern life is very good at burning toast. Most of us walk around with that system half-on for years. The stress response was built as an emergency broadcast. We've turned it into background music.
Almost none of it…
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