The Neuroscience of Meditation, Mindfulness, and Compassion
Presenter:
William Mobley
Time:
13:54
Summary
In times of stress, anxiety, and isolation finding effective strategies to understand our emotions and how we relate to the world at large often brings comfort. Mindfulness, meditation, and compassion have long been championed as helpful strategies but how do they impact our well being, if at all? Fadel Zeidan joins William Mobley to discuss his work applying scientific methods to these practices to quantify and discover how and why they work.
Transcript
What do you wish more people knew about how stress impacts the human body, that while it's worth paying attention to the fact that it does crummy things to your heart and blood pressure and bladder and everything else.
For me, most meaningful thing is it does crummy things to your brain. The worst is that it makes you less empathic. It makes you less tolerant, it makes you less willing to take somebody else's perspective. It narrows your tunnel of concerns. And I think what we see is in a world full of stress, people are crummier to each other on the average.