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Re:Six Ways to Boost Brainpower: Exercise, Diet, Stimulants,... by baltoo on Friday January 30, 2009 @12:05PM (#458307)
I'd say that idle and bored are not the same thing (http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i21/21b00601.htm).

In the same vein meditation is not the same thing either. From my point of view it's about being mindful about one's surrounding without analyzing it, just observing. It's a state that I find actually quite difficult to really achive.

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Re:Six Ways to Boost Brainpower: Exercise, Diet, Stimulants,... by lanaer on Friday January 30, 2009 @12:53PM (#458389)
That is mindfulness meditation, and yes, it is quite difficult.

Actually, any type of meditation is difficult. (The other general type of meditation I know of is where you focus on a specific sound (or mantra) and repeat it over and over, either out loud or in your mind.)

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