Stillness and the Default Mode Network

Описание: One of the most powerful therapeutic tools we have is Stillness. And yet we struggle to describe it, to make space for it, to understand its value.
In its absence our work becomes cacophonous, blundering, detuned from the real needs of the person in our care. We go through motions without any underlying change.

What is Stillness, from a brain network perspective? How might it bring about changes in states of interoception, well-being, and chronic pain?
Here's a throwback to one of our first livestreams (Month 1 of Pandemic! Whoa.) where we explore a contemporary model of Stillness, as a behavior of the brain's Default Mode Network (DMN).

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REFERENCES AND RELATED LINKS
-- Overview on Brain's Default Mode Network (DMN)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default....

-- Michael Pollan's video discussion of the DMN:
   • Michael Pollan | Dissolving the Default Mo...  
-- The DMN and Chronic Pain:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/.../pii...

-- On the DMN's involvement in connecting Pleasure (Hedonia) and Well-Being (Eudaimonia):
https://www.sciencedirect.com/.../pii...

-- John Cage's piece 4'33'':
""There's no such thing as silence. What they thought was silence, because they didn't know how to listen, was full of accidental sounds."—John Cage"
   • 4'33" by John Cage  

-- Erling Kagge's book 'Silence in the Age of Noise':
https://g.co/kgs/i5JxWv