No Self, No Problem: How Neuropsychology is Catching Up to Buddhism (The No Self Wisdom)

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Identify with the thinking mind and you are subject to all its mechanisms and preferences for the abstract over reality. Challenging topics, allows good insight for self, and how we look at others or how they may view themselves. These demonstrations will be familiar to anyone like myself who has taught psychology and maybe by students who are lucky enough to have encountered them in an introductory psychology course. In one of the most famous split-brain studies of all time, the patient’s left brain (so, their right eye) was shown a picture of a chicken’s foot. What makes intuition an especially interesting facet of your consciousness is that, although neuroscience can’t explain it, studies have not only proved that it exists, but that it’s also better at making certain types of decisions than your left brain is!

Likewise, the patient’s left brain identified an image of a snow shovel and matched it to the snowscape. But I felt this book to be a little simplistic - only dividing the brain up to "left" and "right" when it is so much more complex. A good read for fans of Buddhist philosophy, and those seeking a scientific and more rigorous grounding for meditative practice.

The trick is to become less identified with your thoughts, to not take them so seriously, to see them as ‘happenings’ rather than ‘the way things really are’. So, if our left brain helps us to make sense of language and patterns, what does our right brain do? We’re alsoengaging the peace, focus, and intuition of our right brains and disconnecting from the left. Now, people who are left-brain dominant tend to explain away examples of intuitive intelligence as silly. The good news is you can bring yourself into awareness and into the right brain, then you can find a state of balance and less suffering.

We can point to the language center, the face processing center, and the center for understanding the emotions of others. That is just say, when you become conscious of the interpreter, you are free to choose to no longer take its interpretation so seriously.Pretty much anybody would observe those patterns and assume that your coworkers are talking about you behind your back and that they’re definitely saying unkind things. These demonstrations are highly effective for punching holes in the left-brain ego, readying the reader for alternatives to the limited left brain. Awareness, something that is integrally connected to the present moment, and therefore the right brain.

Instead of scrolling through your social media news feed, this is a much better way to spend your spare time in my opinion. Niebauer's first book, I noted a similarity between his ideas and those of don Miguel Ruiz, and I wondered if he had read or even met Ruiz. When we remember or recollect, we are putting together a story of what we think happened, not witnessing or replaying what happened.This companion workbook is a wonderful beginner's guide that will help you tap into a true sense of mindfulness and inner peace, understand human consciousness, and alleviate the daily suffering caused by the way we identify with the false self. Niebauer is quick to point out that this doesn't mean that the self doesn't exist but rather that it does so in the same way that a mirage in the middle of the desert exists, as a thought rather than a thing. Well, according to Buddhism, the problem is that that illusion of self causes us long-term psychological damage. You’re also likely feeling confident that those thoughts are being processed by the same autopilot self you’ve always imagined up in your head.