#215 The Power Of Meditation and the Science Behind It (with Dr. Amishi Jha)

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

Russell Brand

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Comedy

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🗓️ 4 December 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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This week I’m joined by Dr. Amishi Jha! Dr. Amishi is a professor of psychology at the University of Miami and Director of Contemplative Neuroscience for the Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative. She studies mindfulness meditation and writes about the observable affects it has on brains and our attention, and is the author of Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day. In this episode Amishi explains in detail how our minds operate in terms of our focus and attention. What is happening neurologically at any given moment and how do our environment and our internal states affect this? How does mindfulness meditation affect this? The answer is…A LOT. If you had any skepticism around the power of meditation, allow Dr. Amishi to quell any suspicion and to, in fact, present you with the evidence. Of course, we discuss the spiritual and transcendental aspects of meditation, too, as we both believe there is more going on than we can currently measure. The potential is of what is and what could be is inspiring! More Info: Get a copy of Amishi's book here: https://amishi.com/ Come see me live; check out upcoming dates: https://www.russellbrand.com/live-dates/ My meditation podcast, Above the Noise, is out now, only on Luminary. I release guided meditations every Wednesday. Please check it out: http://luminary.link/meditate Elites are taking over! Our only hope is to form our own. To learn more join my cartel here https://www.russellbrand.com/join and get weekly bulletins too incendiary for anything but your private inbox. (*not a euphemism) Subscribe to my YouTube channel, I post four videos a week including video clips from these episodes! https://www.youtube.com/russellbrand Subscribe to my YouTube side-channel for more wellness and spirituality: https://www.youtube.com/c/AwakeningWithRussell Instagram: http://instagram.com/russellbrand/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/rustyrockets

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Under the Skin from Luminary. This week I spoke with Amishijah.
0:05.6	Doctor Amishijah is a professor of psychology at the University of Miami and director of
0:09.8	Contemplative Neuro Science for the mindfulness research and practice initiative.
0:13.7	She studies mindfulness meditation and writes about the observable effects it has on brains
0:18.2	and our attention. Her book, Peak Mind, is out now. Now that under the skin is on Apple
0:22.9	podcasts, please leave a review there. It helps us and we'll read them all out.
0:27.0	In this bit of the conversation, what did we chat about Django? I chose the book where
0:30.5	she does the breakdown because people love lists. Oh yeah, it's a good breakdown. What
0:33.6	their mayaries are in the mind. Yeah, the flashlight and the torch things.
0:36.9	The flashlight was just the same area, Django. Listen again. And like that, our listeners,
0:41.9	you will understand consciousness better after listening to this clip. If you'd like
0:46.0	to listen to the rest of this podcast and all of my weekly under the skin podcast, all
0:49.5	you have to do is subscribe to Luminary on Apple or download the Luminary app. Also on the
0:54.4	same, very same platform, you'll be able to listen to above the noise, a guided meditation
0:59.8	every week. This being Christmas and all. I talk about like Christmas, winter, divinity
1:04.6	and I'm like some sort of pagan shaman directing that stuff. You should listen to this stuff.
1:08.2	It's good gear. I tell the alright. Then thanks very much for listening. I love you and
1:13.2	you feel that love. Trying to achieve a quality with the annihilation of category is not
1:19.1	a successful route. That's exactly right. We're in this era where it turns out we were
1:24.2	never supposed to be a fucking ideal. What's beneath the surface of people with my ideas
1:30.6	that define our time, the history we're told? Welcome to Russell Brand. And the this game.
1:37.9	Additionally, what do you see in the MRI scans that you conduct that suggest a positive
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