When we take the self out of the picture, it seems, things go along with little effort. When long-term meditators reported “undistracted awareness,” “effortless doing,” “not efforting,” and “contentment,” activation in the PCC went down. On the other hand, when they reported “distracted awareness,” “efforting,” and “discontentment,” activation of the PCC went up.
When we take the self out of the picture, it seems, things go along with little effort. When long-term meditators reported “undistracted awareness,” “effortless doing,” “not efforting,” and “contentment,” activation in the PCC went down. On the other hand, when they reported “distracted awareness," "efforting," and "discontentment," activation of the PCC went up.

