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10% Happier with Dan Harris

Dr. David Vago, This Is Your Brain on Meditation

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

4.612.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

There has been an explosion of research in recent years on what meditation does to the brain, but as neuroscientist Dave Vago points out, the science of putting meditation under neuro-imaging is still quite young. Vago, the research director for the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, studies brain scans of meditators to analyze changes in brain activity, blood flow, size and function of certain areas in the brain, and he was part of a group of scientists who published paper aiming to define "mindfulness" and its neurological impacts. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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1:18.6

From ABC, this is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

1:25.4

As you've heard me mentioned before, I've got a new book coming out. It's called Meditation

1:30.0

for Figuity Skeptics. And it's based on this road trip that I took across the country

1:36.3

back in January with my good friend Jeff Warren, who's an amazing meditation teacher from

1:41.8

Canada. And I guess the backstory is after I wrote 10% happier, I kind of thought and

1:47.6

I evally that everybody who read it would start meditating that I made a good enough

1:52.3

case based on the science and based on the fact that if I can do it, anybody can,

1:57.6

that people would start meditating. And I was really wrong about that. And it's become

2:02.3

clear to me in the intervening years that habit formation is really difficult. And so the

2:09.6

point of this next book is to sort of systematically taxonomize, classify, list all of the obstacles

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