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Will an electronic gadget designed on reward/punishment mechanism of brain help improve meditation?

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The most challenging part of meditation is to keep our wandering mind aware of persent moment and mindful of thoughts. Our brain has some thing called '**Default Mode Network**' which is nothing but our ordinary mind full of worries and past and future etc. This mode is converted into something called as '**Executive Mode**' in states of meditation and states of what people called **flow**. Now, scientists for ages have trained animals to behave in certain way through reward/ punishment mechanism which gets our brain trained to do particular task or behave in particular way. If I designed an electronic gadget, something similar to this . With an added mechanism that whenever your mind will wonder a small tingiling shock will be given to your skin and otherwise nothing will happen. Using dry electrodes and signal processing techniques we can now detect when the mind wanders off. My queation is, 1. Will this kind of technology be accepted by serious meditators or otherwise will it be helpful to people who are new to meditation. 2. Or will it prove to be nuisance. 3. Do you think we can train our brains to be mindful all the times through such reward/punishment exercise.
Asked by user13135
Jul 16, 2018, 08:29 PM
Last activity: Jul 17, 2018, 07:41 AM