There's plenty of scientific evidence that, sadly, confirms that, as adults, our brain's Central Executive is almost never activated or engaged in our lives. This is, indeed, sad because this is the neural component that ensures that our actions are focused and goal-congruent - without it we're as effective as a headless chicken.

Research tells us that this key neural component is, indeed, engaged when we're learning a complex new task. The research in question relates to people learning to drive a car for the first time: when compared to habitual drivers, their neural activity is completely different, the point being that, once habituated, the Central Executive once again becomes dormant - and, as a consequence, we live normal dormant lives... if "live" adequately describes a normal walking-dead-existence!

Research now confirms that meditation activates the Central Executive - when you choose to meditate, you choose to engage this key neural component deliberately. In fact, psychology now considers the Central Executive to be the neural site of conscious awareness. More importantly, research confirms that meditation enlarges this area of your brain. This is important because, as neural pathways grow larger (or, in fact, wider) and as the myelin insulation thickens, the enlarged part of your brain becomes more effective and efficient and, in time, becomes a "super-highway" down which your neural traffic can flow freely... effortlessly (a word I love and use freely and often!).

But even more than this, as today's video points out, you never become an expert at meditation - it's just not possible... the depths and recesses, possibilities and potential of our brains are endless (well, nearly). This means that you never become habituated - when you meditate your Central Executive is always going to be involved - even if it's only involved in a row with some of the useless crap that bubbles to the surface when you meditate.

The message is simple: meditation touches the parts of the brain that nothing else can, it engages that part of the brain that we all need to ensure that we do just what needs to be done, in a focused way, to get us to where we want to go. Meditation makes - and continues to make - us fit for purpose... purpose with a Capital "P".