Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/MgE9ZDdOkJk   Just 20 minutes of open monitoring meditation can improve your ability to quickly catch errors while you can do something about them.  That’s true, even if you never meditated before.   Michigan State University psychologists report this finding after testing some 200 volunteers.  Half were taught an open meditation technique while the controls just rested quietly with closed eyes prior to a computer task.  The open monitoring meditation group detected their errors on that computer task 20% more effectively than controls.   Open monitoring meditation prescribes an unfocused, broad awareness of your mind’s internal dialog.  By encouraging expansive thinking, it feeds your creativity as well as self-editing error detection.  Get a meditation phone app and try it.    Lin, Eckerle, Peng, Moser. On Variation in Mindfulness Training: A Multimodal Study of Brief Open Monitoring Meditation on Error Monitoring. Brain Sciences, 2019; 9 (9): 226 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci9090226   htt