{"id":10852,"date":"2021-10-11T06:58:47","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T04:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studio.mouvements-modernes.eu\/?p=10852"},"modified":"2022-02-12T13:18:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T12:18:37","slug":"meditation-motor-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studio.mouvements-modernes.eu\/fr\/meditation-motor-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is it good to meditate after training ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n \nWhether we meditate interoceptively (by observing one's internal environment) or exteroceptively (by observing one's external environment), meditation facilitates the secretion of striatal dopamine, a neurotransmitter that regulates cognitive functions, particularly memory and the consolidation of newly acquired skills. [1<\/a>]<\/span>\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n

The peculiarity of meditation is that it plunges us into a state of both rest and alterness. This state is sometimes called NSDR ; non-sleep deep rest. [2<\/a>]<\/span>\n\n<\/p>\n\n

When we meditate after training, or after studying - in short, after having learned something - we consolidate more quickly the information that we have assimilated, which then allows us to speed up our learning process and, therefore, to progress faster*.\n\n<\/p>\n\n

Meditation does not necessarily have to take place right after the learning session, but at least within the hours following it.\n\n<\/p>\n\n

As for how long one should meditate to consolidate their memory (motor, cognitive, etc.), the recommendation is at least 20 minutes for a 90-minute training or learning session - and less for shorter sessions.\n\n<\/p>\n\n

\n \n Meditating can be hard at the begining, and if you're like me, you often want to go on with your day at the end of a training session. Sounds about right? If that's the case, here's a challenge for you: for the next month, take at least 5 minutes to meditate once you're done exercising, and note any difference you can observe regarding your progression.\n \n \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n*For more info on the subject, see my previous article \"Offline gains: take a break to progress<\/a>\".\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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[1] Maarten A. Immink.<\/span><\/span> Post-training Meditation Promotes Motor Memory Consolidation<\/a>.<\/span><\/span>
Front. Psychol<\/em>., November 2016<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

[2] Huberman Lab Podcast – Using Science to Optimize Sleep, Learning & Metabolism<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Discover how meditation can not only help you to consolidate your motor memory, but also your memory in general.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"default","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"[\"title\",\"meta\",\"content\",\"comments\"]","neve_meta_disable_header":"off","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[117,116,111,109],"class_list":["post-10852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-meditation","tag-motor-memory","tag-movement-science","tag-neuroplasticity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studio.mouvements-modernes.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studio.mouvements-modernes.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studio.mouvements-modernes.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studio.mouvements-modernes.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studio.mouvements-modernes.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10852"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/studio.mouvements-modernes.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11141,"href":"https:\/\/studio.mouvements-modernes.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10852\/revisions\/11141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studio.mouvements-modernes.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studio.mouvements-modernes.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studio.mouvements-modernes.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studio.mouvements-modernes.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}