Emily McDonald

And then it uses that model to predict your present and your future, right?

And so it's not necessarily using your senses to construct reality right now.

It's using your senses to kind of update the model and the prediction that it's already made about your experience right now.

And so...

Yeah, I mean, I do kind of refer to the brain as a prediction machine and that it's always predicting what's going to happen through predictive processing.

And so when you start to update these predictions, then you kind of start through, you know, training your perception, everything that I was just talking about, then you actually start to experience reality differently.

Yeah, and I think on the topic of know thyself, I mean, the way that I navigate identity is really on two levels.

And so, you know, in the beginning of my journey, I kind of woke up right to the fact that, you know,

Maybe I'm not my thoughts.

Maybe I'm not my brain.

Maybe I'm not this body.

Maybe I'm, you know, the consciousness, the energy, whatever word you want to use.

Maybe I'm the divine life force energy in a human body expressing itself through me.

human experience.

Maybe that's what I am.

And so I think, you know, getting to know thyself from my, in my like personal opinion before going into the science is really more about actually stepping beside all of the physical.

So, I mean, for me, like meditation was just absolutely like

paramount in my journey and in my life and in my transformation, I would not be here.

I would not be where I am today without meditation.

And truly, that's where I feel that I've gotten to know my deeper inner self that is beyond all of the labels and the language that we use to describe it.