Dr. Richard Davidson: What We’re Getting Wrong with Meditation
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Mayim Bialik
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🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Richard Davidson (Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Founder & Director of the Center for Healthy Minds) shows us what it truly means to be well in your emotional self by harnessing our trauma mechanisms into well-being! He breaks down the scientific data he’s gathered on long-term meditators (including monks!) to show the efficacy of meditation, the parts of the brain most affected by meditation, and what all of that means for how we self-regulate and cope with trauma. Dr. Davidson explains how meditation can help parenting, how our expectations and narratives influence our perception of the world, and what our "emotional fingerprints" are. He and Mayim discuss how his framework of awareness, connection, insight, and purpose lead us to understand the science of well-being, the notion that love and kindness are innate and hate is learned, and the importance of teaching forms of meditation to our kids.
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| 0:00.0 | How it beliefs about ourselves and our expectations of ourselves influence our perception |
| 0:09.4 | of the world. |
| 0:10.6 | And I would go even further to say they not only influence our perception of the world, |
| 0:15.0 | they define the world in which we subjectively inhabit. |
| 0:19.9 | One way for an average person to reflect about this, and this is a kind of simple meditation |
| 0:27.6 | exercise that we do, is imagine a challenging situation that has happened recently in |
| 0:35.2 | your life, bringing it to your mind, and simply envision what your response to that situation |
| 0:42.4 | might be if you had a completely different set of beliefs and expectations going into |
| 0:48.8 | that situation. |
| 0:50.1 | We are so fused with the beliefs and expectations that we have of ourselves. |
| 0:55.5 | Many people don't even recognize that they have beliefs and expectations. |
| 0:58.8 | Wait, can we just slow this down just for a second? |
| 1:02.8 | Because so I thought of a situation, I'm not going to go into too much detail. |
| 1:07.3 | I thought of a situation where someone hurt my feelings and they did something that I think |
| 1:16.0 | is wrong, you know, unethical, like really wrong. |
| 1:21.8 | So I'm trying to imagine, like, I have, I'm thinking of a friend of mine who happens |
| 1:27.3 | to be a, I would consider a pretty enlightened person. |
| 1:30.8 | She was raised in a Buddhist community and she's very chill. |
| 1:34.1 | If this happens to her, she would have had a totally different reaction. |
| 1:38.6 | I mean, it's not to say that she wouldn't be hurt, but is that the kind of example we're |
| 1:42.8 | talking about? |
| 1:43.8 | Yeah, that's a, I think that's a very appropriate example. |
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