Hello friends, welcome back to this show. My guest today is Steven Larris. He's a neurologist,

professor of neurology and director at Coma Science Group and an author. We're talking about

the neuroscience of meditation. Meditation and mindfulness practice has gained a lot of

popularity over the last few decades, but the effect are inherently difficult to observe

because they're internal. Thankfully, Steven is one of the leading clinicians and researchers

in the field of neurology and has scanned the brains of some of the world's heavyweight

meditators. So today, expect to learn what structural changes occur in the brain after consistent

meditation practice, why meditation impacts happiness, what Steven learned from the happiest man alive,

what neuroscience can tell us about happiness from deep sea divers and much more.

One of the problems that we encounter with meditation is that the trait changes,

the long-term effects to your day-to-day existence, they take a while to accumulate. You need to

actually get some time and attention doing the practice to be able to see that change in your daily

experience and inevitably that causes people to lose faith or motivation with their daily practice.

Thankfully, seeing the physical changes in the brain from someone who gets to look at these things

on a screen like Steven, hopefully should give those of you who are maybe wobbling with your

meditation practice. A big kick up the ass that this is one of the most important things that you

can do to benefit your mental health and Steven has this lovely Belgian accent. So yeah, enjoy that.

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