Dr. David Burns

I love these different choices, Jason. Four of them are all about internal, your body, counting your breath. paying attention to your breath and the things around you, thinking, breathing, hearing, planning, experiencing. And then the one, the loving kindness is focusing outward, like sending out loving kindness to, you do do it toward yourself, but you're sending it out towards others.

I love these different choices, Jason. Four of them are all about internal, your body, counting your breath. paying attention to your breath and the things around you, thinking, breathing, hearing, planning, experiencing. And then the one, the loving kindness is focusing outward, like sending out loving kindness to, you do do it toward yourself, but you're sending it out towards others.

And then the do nothing meditation, I guess, fits its own separate category. Yeah.

And then the do nothing meditation, I guess, fits its own separate category. Yeah.

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Not surprising to me is that the biggest drop was after the loving-kindness meditation.

Not surprising to me is that the biggest drop was after the loving-kindness meditation.

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Right, right, right.

Yes, absolutely, yeah. I wasn't paying attention to that. I was hypothesizing about loving kindness, so I zeroed in on that. But you're right, that's the biggest change, an immediate change. Yeah. Super interesting.

Yes, absolutely, yeah. I wasn't paying attention to that. I was hypothesizing about loving kindness, so I zeroed in on that. But you're right, that's the biggest change, an immediate change. Yeah. Super interesting.

That is the big question.

That is the big question.

Or because it was relaxing.

Or because it was relaxing.

I imagine that the last one, the do nothing meditation, runs the risk of obsessionally thinking about your negative thought. Like with the body scan and the counting and the loving kindness meditation and even with the Vipassana where you're paying attention to what's going on internally and externally. Yeah.

I imagine that the last one, the do nothing meditation, runs the risk of obsessionally thinking about your negative thought. Like with the body scan and the counting and the loving kindness meditation and even with the Vipassana where you're paying attention to what's going on internally and externally. Yeah.

You have that 10-minute break from your thought that you described, like you're separating yourself from the break. But the do-nothing meditation where you're doing nothing, it seems to me that could be inviting yourself to obsess about the negative thought and bring that back up. And that's why I think it's really interesting that with that fifth meditation, things stayed pretty much the same.

You have that 10-minute break from your thought that you described, like you're separating yourself from the break. But the do-nothing meditation where you're doing nothing, it seems to me that could be inviting yourself to obsess about the negative thought and bring that back up. And that's why I think it's really interesting that with that fifth meditation, things stayed pretty much the same.