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The Importance of Paying Attention to Your Bias in Meditation
Meditation can either make things better or worse depending on whether or not we become more present to interoception or dissociation and our bias is one of dissociation versus interoception. Being mindful of your bias in meditation can help you gain the intended benefits of meditation without harmful consequences.
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Meditation can be beneficial or detrimental depending on how it's practiced and the individual's biases.
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Meditation can be beneficial or detrimental depending on how it's practiced and the individual's biases. Focusing too much on interoception during meditation, for example, can make it harder to fall asleep, while an extraoceptively-biased practice can help those who tend to focus too much on their inner landscape.
ChapterThe Importance of Paying Attention to Your Bias in Meditation
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The speaker shares simple protocols that anyone can follow to leverage better sleep quality, potentially reducing the total amount of sleep needed.
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The speaker shares simple protocols that anyone can follow to leverage better sleep quality, potentially reducing the total amount of sleep needed. They also discuss how daily meditation has been proven to have a fundamental impact on improving attention, memory, mood, and emotional regulation.