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Saturday February 22, 2025

This morning in my inbox I received a Neuroscience Newsletter, as I do everyday. Today there was an article titled, Spiritual Practices Share a Common Mental Pathway to Deep Bliss. See link below. https://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=GXPTx&m=9ExZM_ycyMmcfT8Y&b=HeQo3dxallJq.8Zk6P9fIw

It always amazes me when synchronicity occurs, this article is in alignment with this blog. I will be writing about the findings, even though there is still more to write about from Newberg. This article is recent. I have included the link should you wish to read it for yourself. Below find an excerpt of the summary of the article. This is exciting, the implications that perhaps scientists could bring forth how to do this, so that all could enjoy those blissful moments.

They found that a particular sect of Buddhist meditation and Christian speaking in tongues, regardless of their belief differences had a common link. That link is the cognitive feedback loop. The study showed the process called the Attention, and Arousal and Release, created a cycle where focused attention led to joy, and making concentration effortless and deepening.

It is reported that they gathered their information from firsthand accounts from meditation retreats, and worship services, their focus was the micro-moments of attention and emotional shifts. Early brain activity findings suggests that both meditation and speaking in tongues involve a cognitive shift that enhances immersion.

Understanding that this finding could assist others in accessing these profound states of focus tranquility, and bliss. Focus on the deeply felt bliss here. This is the description of a Big E as Newberg put it. I was shown in 2015 during meditation, when someone or something took me, above the earth, and we looked down upon it, then lights started coming on until the continent I was being shown was completely illuminated. At that moment I understood that there would be a Mass Awakening event. I attempted to ask questions but was pulled back to earth and my body. This research could assist in that occurring.

Next up for the researchers they will use brain imaging in exploring the physiological changes behind this phenomenon.

What is new is finding the feedback loop for positive, we have known for some time that trauma can cause feedback loops as put forth in the book Emotional Intelligence, where a traumatic event will bypass the normal pathways of accessing the rational part of the brain, and when triggered it goes directly to the experience of the trauma, bypassing the rational part of the brain.