Jason Meno

Yeah. And really, I think any activity that can pop you out of that type of blind... Distract you, right? Yeah, to get you out of it for a little bit, to give you some space.

Yeah. And really, I think any activity that can pop you out of that type of blind... Distract you, right? Yeah, to get you out of it for a little bit, to give you some space.

Right, yeah, it could be anything, really. It could be, yeah, I mean, it could be watching, maybe watching TV, I'm not sure. Again, these are things we'd have to control and experiment for to see, like would watching TV for 10 minutes or watching a YouTube video for 10 minutes have a similar effect?

Right, yeah, it could be anything, really. It could be, yeah, I mean, it could be watching, maybe watching TV, I'm not sure. Again, these are things we'd have to control and experiment for to see, like would watching TV for 10 minutes or watching a YouTube video for 10 minutes have a similar effect?

Another way I'm thinking about it right now is sometimes whenever you're thinking about solving problems in your life,

Another way I'm thinking about it right now is sometimes whenever you're thinking about solving problems in your life,

And a lot of the time the answer comes to you when you're out on a walk or you're in the shower or you're doing something completely unrelated to the very thing that you've been thinking about before, that there seems to be a subconscious type of chewing on the problem that our brain does when we allow our brain to take care of it on its own.

And a lot of the time the answer comes to you when you're out on a walk or you're in the shower or you're doing something completely unrelated to the very thing that you've been thinking about before, that there seems to be a subconscious type of chewing on the problem that our brain does when we allow our brain to take care of it on its own.

So that's also another potential pathway that might be happening here, which is we've given you a negative thought.

So that's also another potential pathway that might be happening here, which is we've given you a negative thought.

On average, yeah.

On average, yeah.

The distribution does show more changes happening. Like there are some people that are starting to push down even further in their belief in upsetness. So it does, it's minor, the effects, but I hear what you're saying. On the practical level, the meditations were guided.

The distribution does show more changes happening. Like there are some people that are starting to push down even further in their belief in upsetness. So it does, it's minor, the effects, but I hear what you're saying. On the practical level, the meditations were guided.

So every minute or so, there was at least some voice coming in to provide extra guidance to help push them away from maybe some rumination they might be doing.

So every minute or so, there was at least some voice coming in to provide extra guidance to help push them away from maybe some rumination they might be doing.

Yeah, in all five meditations, you were basically, your hand was held 99% of the time. Mm-hmm. And so there there wasn't too much time to to get too sucked into your negative thoughts. Although one piece of information to give here, which is after all these meditations, I did ask people, like, what was your experience like? What what what happened to you here?

Yeah, in all five meditations, you were basically, your hand was held 99% of the time. Mm-hmm. And so there there wasn't too much time to to get too sucked into your negative thoughts. Although one piece of information to give here, which is after all these meditations, I did ask people, like, what was your experience like? What what what happened to you here?

And generally, everyone was quite appreciative of. like getting the chance to try meditation again after a while, and many don't meditate for a whole hour like this and got to experience these different things.

And generally, everyone was quite appreciative of. like getting the chance to try meditation again after a while, and many don't meditate for a whole hour like this and got to experience these different things.