{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Dreamlabs","title":"Vipassana Unveiled","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":808,"description":" If you recognize that as the voice of SN Goenka, you've probably been to a 10 day Vipassana meditation retreat. If not, you're in luck because I just got back from one of those retreats, and today I'm going to be sharing everything that I learned. I'll share what actually happens inside your mind at a meditation retreat and why I think meditation is such a great tool, not only to make you happier, but also, yes, I'm going to say it more productive.\nAnd what's cool about meditation is that while it's something that you can go really deep on, it's also something that you can do right now. Like, yeah, right now, seriously, let's try it. Take a deep breath in through your nose, hold it and breathe out slowly through your mouth.\nThat's nice. But back to my point, if you wanna really feel the benefits of meditation, you need to go big like 10 days fully offline, meditating, non-stop the entire time big. Because when you do that for the first time, you realize that voice in your head. You know the one that's always saying.\nYeah, that one in neuroscience, this constant internal chatter is called the default mode network, or DMN. And outside of the moments when you've been in deep sleep or extremely concentrated on a particular task, it has never shut up, not once, not in your entire life.\nAnd there's nothing that will make you realize this more than your first few days at a meditation retreat because during that time you do a technique called on upon a breathing. Which is basically just paying attention to the sensation of your breath as it comes in and out of your nose. But what it really is, is an epic battle between you and your default mode network.\nThe metaphor that I would use to describe this is imagine if you were a piece of driftwood that was trying to settle down on the shore. You find a good spot. You're in the sand. You think everything's gonna be fine. You're breathing in, you're breathing out. You're breathing in, you're breathing out. But then you start...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/u1nB-ZZnV23nILzHKGzxIJims0yAttK4qUom2rDPS5A/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zMWEx/ZTc1YjBjNjdmZDk3/YjE4MzhlNWMwNzlm/YzE0Ni5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}