The Science of Meditation: The expert guide to the neuroscience of mindfulness and how to harness it
Sep 2017 · Penguin UK
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DELVE INTO THE SCIENCE BEHIND YOUR PRACTICE WITH THIS ESSENTIAL AND PRACTICAL GUIDE TO MEDITATION
'This is a book that really can change your life' Arianna Huffington, author of the New York Times bestseller The Sleep Revolution
Meditation is fascinating, but often it feels elusive. How can simple exercises change your mental state? How can focussing your breathing lead to changes in your personality? For the first time, Harvard collaborators Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson share the science behind the practice.
Drawing on cutting edge research and sweeping away common misconceptions, they show how to improve your technique, how smart practice can cultivate selflessness, equanimity, love and compassion, and even redesign our neural circuitry.
Whether you're a beginner or have meditated for years, bring mindfulness and meditation into your life with an essential read for the world we live in now.
'A happy synthesis of the authors' remarkable careers.' Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Full Catastrophe Living and Mindfulness for Beginners
'This is a book that really can change your life' Arianna Huffington, author of the New York Times bestseller The Sleep Revolution
Meditation is fascinating, but often it feels elusive. How can simple exercises change your mental state? How can focussing your breathing lead to changes in your personality? For the first time, Harvard collaborators Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson share the science behind the practice.
Drawing on cutting edge research and sweeping away common misconceptions, they show how to improve your technique, how smart practice can cultivate selflessness, equanimity, love and compassion, and even redesign our neural circuitry.
Whether you're a beginner or have meditated for years, bring mindfulness and meditation into your life with an essential read for the world we live in now.
'A happy synthesis of the authors' remarkable careers.' Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Full Catastrophe Living and Mindfulness for Beginners
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Lyndsey Parry
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October 11, 2017
Can meditation make us less stressed, anxious and self centred? Can we become calmer and kinder? The evidence analysed in this book suggests we are not so far away from a resounding "yes" from the scientific community. Convincing work here for anyone considering starting or deepening their practice.
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Mathieu Norry
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June 25, 2019
Many references to research but just as much an exploration of the history of meditation.
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Alik S.
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January 6, 2019
This book has 100% influenced me
About the author
Daniel Goleman (Author)
Daniel Goleman, PhD, author of five New York Times bestsellers, is best known for his paradigm-shifting book Emotional Intelligence, a global bestseller, and has a long-standing interest in meditation dating back to his two years in India as a graduate student at Harvard. His books have been translated into more than forty languages.
Richard Davidson (Author)
Richard J. Davidson received his PhD from Harvard in psychology, and has been at Wisconsin since 1984, where he directs the Waisman Brain Imaging Lab, the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience and the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds. He has been chosen as one of Time's '100 most influential people in the world'.
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