Key Takeaways:
- The instruction Judson received when he first learned to meditate was to simply pay attention to his breath and when his mind wandered to bring it back
- The reward-based learning process called as positive and negative reinforcement
- Three words that typify habit forming behaviour are trigger, behavior, rewards
- Mindfulness training focuses on to breaking a bad habit through focusing on being curious on what is happening in our momentary experience
- The Prefrontal Cortex is that part of the brain helps us to use cognition to control behaviour
- The efficiency in mindfulness training in helping people to quit smoking is twice as good as gold standard therapy at helping people to quit smoking
- When we become curious the posterior cingulate cortex brain region also quiets down