Today's cool fact of the day is that mindfulness is actually meeting medical school.

The University of Massachusetts was a little bit ahead of the curve when it comes to

looking at what's going on in your head and what it has to do with what's going inside

your body.

Because in 1979 they founded a program that since had 24,000 people trained in a method

called Kabat Zens Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction or MBSR.

This has become something that's spread around a long time ago.

But now the University is breaking new ground by creating a new division in its medical

school dedicated to real academic scientific study of the role of mindfulness in healthcare.

And this is the first medical school division of mindfulness anywhere and it's based on

the fact that this school started doing it many years ago.

The reason they did this is that they just said, quote, we recognize the deep potential

synergies between the domains of medicine and meditation.

And they're opening the door to new neuroscience research, efficacy studies that refine treatment

and training in mindfulness interventions, novel treatments, and even digital therapeutics.

What this means for you and me is that when you go to see your doctor five, ten years

or now, maybe they'll ask you what's going on inside your head, not just ask you for

some symptoms and give you some pills, I'm pretty excited about a future like that.

And I hope you are too.

Today's show is going to be awesome and it's going to be a little unusual.

I started out my path as a Silicon Valley engineer, actually pretty skeptical to be

perfectly honest.

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