Quieting the Monkey Mind. Enhancing Mindfulness Meditation by Incorporating the Cocktail Party Effect

Mindful meditation is bedeviled by the tendency of meditators mind to wander away from concentrating on breath, or other focus, and wandering random subjects stimulated memories distractions. The underling goal training learn how silence incessant chatter unfocused mind, Poetically referred as monkey enable being in moment.The Cocktail Party Effect a well studied, but little understood, higher level characteristic human acoustic system. It allows conversation between two speakers function presence overwhelmingly loud background noise cocktail party noisy Bar.Consciously incorporating into practice can enhance ability bedeviling chatter.