{"id":397,"date":"2014-08-13T20:31:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T03:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/?p=397"},"modified":"2017-03-11T12:21:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T20:21:17","slug":"did-you-have-a-summer-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/2014\/08\/13\/did-you-have-a-summer-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you have a summer vacation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>School starts again in a few weeks. For me that usually means going into overdrive wrapping up summer projects and putting together materials for the new year. If I haven&#8217;t found vacation time yet, it probably isn&#8217;t going to happen. At least that&#8217;s my usual pattern, but a recent NY Times op-ed by <strong>Daniel J. Levitin<\/strong>, author of \u201cThe Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload,\u201d explains why dodging vacation is a bad idea.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a title=\"Hit the Reset Button, Levitin | NY Times, Opinion, Aug 9, 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/10\/opinion\/sunday\/hit-the-reset-button-in-your-brain.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&amp;smprod=nytcore-ipad&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>&#8220;Hit the Reset Button in Your Brain&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> (NY Times, Opinion, Aug. 9), there are two networks in my brain that take turns operating just like two kids going up and down on a seesaw. For my brain to be at its best, the so-called task-positive network, or central executive, needs to shut down periodically so that the task-negative network, or daydreaming mode, can have a chance to operate. More than that, I need to leave my daydreaming mode with unfettered control of my life for extended periods. Switching back and forth rapidly between the two modes just isn&#8217;t as beneficial as a good, old-fashioned, turn-the-cell\/email-off vacation. Of course, what better way to take a break than sitting meditation for 30 minutes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School starts again in a few weeks. For me that usually means going into overdrive wrapping up summer projects and putting together materials for the new year. If I haven&#8217;t found vacation time yet, it probably isn&#8217;t going to happen. At least that&#8217;s my usual pattern, but a recent NY Times op-ed by Daniel J. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}