Oh, yes, in retrospect that’s exactly how you should measure this! However, I think taking full weeks off of meditation would jeopardize my chances of seeing benefits, and I’m not willing to do that. But I will alternate doing tests before and after meditating, as a smaller weaker version of the same idea.
Would suggest using n = 1 methodologies. For example, switch between meditating every day for one week, then a week of not meditating. See: http://media.sethroberts.net/blog/pdf/2012-09-24-The-Growth-of-Personal-Science-Implications-For-Statistics.pdf
Oh, yes, in retrospect that’s exactly how you should measure this! However, I think taking full weeks off of meditation would jeopardize my chances of seeing benefits, and I’m not willing to do that. But I will alternate doing tests before and after meditating, as a smaller weaker version of the same idea.