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Today's guest is world leading neurologist and best-selling author, Dr. Stephen Lourries.

His latest book is called The No Nonsense Meditation Book, a scientist's guide to the power of meditation.

And as a scientist, he shares the data and evidence on how meditation impacts our brains.

He says that it's a free source of reduced stress,

sharpened attention, better sleep,

and a more contented mind.

He's been known to prescribe medication and meditation to his patients and sometimes just meditation.

Now, here's Dr. Stephen, it is so great to have you on Untangle today.

Thanks so much for being with us.

Thank you.

Pleasure.

I love this idea of looking at meditation from a neurologist's perspective,

and we'll share information about your book as we go through this. But I want to know why did

you write this book? There are so many books on meditation and mindfulness. What was it

that led you to want to write this particular book?

There's many books indeed.

And yet I think that the No Nonsense Meditation book is this, I think, quite unique mix of my personal story, because I discovered the power of meditation when I went through personal

Christ and I thought that was sharing. Also as a brain scientist, it opened up new scientific

projects and now I prescribe meditation as a medical doctor. And that mix I had not seen in books

before. As you know, I'm daddy, five kids, my wife works.

So I found the other book sometimes a little bit putting the bar a bit too high, at least for me,

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