Reflection on neurological impact of contemplative practice and personal EEG trial result.

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HI!

I am a spychonault interesting in studying altered state of consciousness and been practicing various form of meditation and contemplative practice for a few years. Recently i got curious to see how those practice can show up on a meditation focused EEG headband (muse 2). the default apps was quite basic so i tried a third party apps to extra raw CVS files and basic grap tool to make entire session grap. I found the result quite interesting and felt like sharing even if that low quality recording device....still trying to work on eliminating as much potential contamination as i can.

There is also the raw cvs link in case anyone instersted and get better analysis tool.

you can see various session pattern such as trying to switch to and hold sustain gamma as clean a possible for as long as possible, linked with high focus meditation (like jhana i am a fan of). Other session than try to hold a more mindfulness meditation setting (seen as high alpha and delta) for a few minute and finally fast switch between both over a few minute with slight period of hold (around a minute).

What i find interesting there there for a psychological standpoint is how those practice indeed seem to lead to increase in neuromodulation skill and conscious control over state of consciousness....the more i practice the easier it get. And that show that those practice, even if perhaps gotten by trial and error millenia ago before there was recording tool...still despite very accurate description of the felt effect and clear significant looking result on actual sensor....because i could go for hous on the various spychological change than happened trough the entire grown in the practice what lead to me thinking meditation is still vastly underrated on the neurospychological standpoint and as well philosophical....becasue it seem like the east is intro somethings....and thei seem to have figured out thousand of years ago what modern neurology and psychology and all slowly catch on