PAUSE to simply BE…
Our ‘Memory Muscle’
by meditative - July 6th, 2020.Filed under: Insights for Mindful Intelligence.
The hippocampus is like our brain’s ‘memory muscle’. It accounts for our ‘working memory’- or what many psychologists refer to as our ‘fluid intelligence’… helping us to learn, reason, comprehend, and problem-solve in novel situations. We use our working memory to monitor, regulate & discern the information we receive, retrieve, process, and dispose. It bridges and integrates our short & long-term memories.
The level of stressors we perceive and experience can have a dramatic impact neurochemically on both the executive & attention functions of our memory muscle. The more relaxed, stable, and disciplined our self-awareness and self-regulation, the stronger our working memory becomes in the face of interfering processes and distractions of mind.
A meditative mind is one primed for more focused learning and comprehension…
Comments
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.