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What is DMN and how to deal with it.

One of the most meaningful shifts you can make in life and career is the shift from self-referential to non-self-referential thinking.


Self-referential thinking is the tendency to interpret every experience through the lens of “me,” “mine,” and “my story.”


 It is the engine behind overthinking.


A quick glimpse at self-referential thinking

It appears as questions like:

  1. What does this mean for me?

  2. What will happen to me?

  3. Why did they say that to me?

  4. How do I look?

  5. My success, my failure, my image.


And as mental loops involving:

  • Evaluating

  • Judging

  • Predicting

  • Comparing

  • Replaying the past

  • Imagining the future

All of which circle around the self.


What is DMN - the Default Mode Network


In neuroscience, this self-focused activity is governed by the Default Mode Network (DMN).

At Shrimath Yoga, we simply call it the DeMoN, because when it takes over, it feeds rumination, stress, and inner noise.


DMN activates when the mind is:

  • Wandering

  • Daydreaming

  • Ruminating

  • Living in past or future

  • Immersed in constant self-talk


Man with closed eyes, holding head, surrounded by glowing brain and abstract figures with phones in cloudy background. Emphasizes stress.

How to regulate DMN?


One of the most effective ways to regulate DMN is Yoga Nidra.


The highest mental shift you can develop is the ability to be fully present.

This is the shift from self-referential to non-self-referential thinking, and Yoga Nidra is one of the most powerful ways to enable it.


This is why coaches, leaders, professionals, and seekers repeatedly turn to Yoga Nidra at Shrimath Yoga  and recommend it to their clients and teams.



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