Mood is known to affect the cortical excitability. To explore further, we need to establish a baseline state where there is no thoughts of any kind. This thoughtlessness is described in Indian Philosophy but how to get this state in normal lay person without much of the exposure to meditation practice..any further thoughts??
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If we think about 70 000 thoughts per day and our brain never sleeps but produces dreams then an eventual baseline have to consist of the mean of several measurements, for example, 10!
https://www.reference.com/world-view/many-thoughts-per-minute-cb7fcf22ebbf8466
Different ideas to consider. These have been used in previous studies:
1) Close eyes and imagine a screen filled with randomly arranged dots.
2) Counting numbers backwards in threes.
3) Imagining waiting for something such as the start of a movie in a large empty movie theatre.
You might want to explore brainwave entrainment technologies: light and sound can induce specific meditation-like states - they have some limitations but also great, largely untapped potential.
I have myself experienced states of inner-quiet in such a way, and have worked with hundreds of others who also benefit daily from this approach.
There might be some Neurofeedback training protocols that you could explore too.
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