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  Exploring Peri-Personal Space: Your Personal Bubble Writer: Sonia Kumar-Seguin Sonia Kumar-Seguin Nov 18, 2023 Updated: Apr 30, 2024 Peri-Personal Space (PPS) people tend to maintain a certain distance from one another in various social settings This unspoken yet well-defined space around us is known as "Peri-Personal Space."  What Is Peri-Personal Space? Peri-Personal Space, often abbreviated as PPS, refers to the area immediately surrounding an individual's body, where sensory and motor functions are closely integrated. It's the region in which you can interact with objects and people using your senses and movements without feeling uncomfortable or anxious. This space is not rigid; it can expand or contract based on factors such as the situation, cultural norms, personal preferences, and the familiarity you have with the people around you.  Think of it as an invisible buffer zone that allows you to navigate the world without feeling constantly threatened or overwh...

  The main focus of this article is on the neurobiology of meditation It covers the experientially perceived mind-space including personal, peripersonal, and extrapersonal space, the concepts of mind in the Western and Eastern literature, and  the neurobiological foundation in the brain stem, reticular-limbic system, forebrain including the five thalamo-cortical-basal ganglia circuits, multiple sensory modalities, integrated perception, speech production, language communication, voluntary movements, and intentional actions.  The wholeness of conscious mind is expressed as bio-psycho-social-abstract/spiritual Introduction “All experience is local. I am not limited to local events. I am nonlocal awareness. It is an awareness of local consciousness.” There is a lot of ambiguity in the field of consciousness studies about the use of the terms consciousness, awareness, presence, and experiential space. Some authors think that consciousness and awareness are the same.[1] Some a...

  consciousness is different from awareness. Consciousness can be thought of as a dualistic, embodied, and embedded cognitive process, whereas awareness is a nondual and nonlocal process. Nonlocal awareness is the ever-present, ever-fresh, and an affective self-awareness that can be aware of itself as well as of the ongoing subject-object duality, and cognitive conscious contents. This nonlocal awareness is our default mode state. Although very few of us are aware of it due to our habitual mental preoccupation and mind-wandering. We need to relax, learn to meditate, let go of all preoccupations, and return to our default mode state of being, which is peaceful, silent, fulfilling, energetic, and ever-fresh. Then, one feels effortlessly alive and free and at home in the world. This is the essence of meditation for living a happy, peaceful, and meaningful life.  The rest of the article provides details of meditative presence, yoga meditation, and mindfulness meditation with their...

  Consciousness and sleep Summary Sleep is a universal, essential biological process. It is also an invaluable window on consciousness. It tells us that consciousness can be lost but also that it can be regained, in all its richness, when we are disconnected from the environment and unable to reflect. By considering the neurophysiological differences between dreaming and dreamless sleep, we can learn about the substrate of consciousness and understand why it vanishes. We also learn that the ongoing state of the substrate of consciousness determines the way each experience feels regardless of how it is triggered—endogenously or exogenously. Dreaming consciousness is also a window on sleep and its functions. Dreams tell us that the sleeping brain is remarkably lively, recombining intrinsic activation patterns from a vast repertoire, freed from the requirements of ongoing behavior and cognitive control. ————————————- Introduction Sleep as a window on consciousness Perhaps the most imp...