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Doubt inevitably shows up in our meditation practice. It’s natural. The real problem occurs when we buy into that doubt. Don’t forget, no matter what the thoughts are, they’re still just thoughts. And all you need to do is gently return your focus to the breath.

High performance sports psychologist Dr. Michael Gervais, featuring partner Pete Carroll, head coach of Seattle Seahawks

Loren Shuster, Google Director, at Copenhagen Business School conference speaking about Mindfulness.

Higher consciousness' sounds mystical and possibly irritating. It shouldn't. It just captures how we see things when we go beyond our own egos.

Is consciousness a scientific problem to be solved? Or a philosophical problem that will remain a mystery? What do scientists who study the brain think? And why do they think the way they do? These leading brain scientists share their intimate ideas about how the brain generates consciousness.

How can mindfulness change your life Jon Kabat Zin talks about how it works.

When it comes to addiction, it’s not just drugs or substances you can become addicted to. Our brains can become addicted to the internet when scrolling through social media or watching another YouTube video lights up the reward system in the brain responsible for a dopamine boost. Once repetitive behavior is enforced, it creates a positive feedback loop that forms the basis of an addiction. Understanding this process can help explain how so many people can watch hours of cat videos.

Physicists have known that it's possible to control chaotic systems without just making them even more chaotic since the 1990s. But in the past 10 years this field has really exploded thanks to machine learning.

You might be at your most creative when you’re hyper-focused and immersed in a task. Or perhaps it’s when your mind wanders, and you shift your attention to another task (or to nothing at all). Three different networks in the brain are likely involved with creativity: the executive attention network, default mode network, and salience network. These networks help you concentrate and detect errors, create pictures in your mind, and filter important ideas from less important ones.

When we are learning something new, neurons from different brain regions communicate with each other. With more exposure and practice over time, your brain creates stronger, more efficient communication between neurons.