Hey guys :) As some of you guys know Helen and I are working on a project for the CASE Art Exhibit and we want this club to be involved. Just a little reminder, the main focus of the project is to combine meditation and neuroscience to create an interactive model of what goes on in our brain during mediation. We would like you guys to help us come up with a name for our project (we have to have a name before we actually start building it for paperwork). Feel free to brainstorm your ideas here, we would really appreciate your help. Basically we are just looking for a creative name that doesnt sound too dull or scientific (we want to make it appealing for the audience), but that hints at what the actual model is showing. The model would show 4 main phases of meditation: mind wondering (a.k.a default mode network), awareness of mind wondering, shifting attention, and sustained attention. Each phase of this cycle does pretty much what it sounds like: we begin by having several random thoughts going on that distract us from our task (mind wondering), we then realize we are no longer paying attention to our task and become aware of our distraction (awareness of mind wondering), this causes us to shift our attention back to the original task or focus (shifting attention), and we are now back to fully directing attention to whatever we were supposed to be doing (sustained attention). This is something that doesnt only happen while we meditate, it happens with almost everything we do. During meditation we are practicing this and teaching our mind how to recognize mind wondering and shift attention more efficiently. I hope I made this concise and clear enough for everyone to understand, and hopefully give some inspiration for naming. If you guys have any questions feel free to ask. Hope you all have a great remainder of the day :)
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 19:21:25 +0000
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