How Tech-Augmented Meditation Can Help You De-Stress with Mikey Siegel of Stanford University
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2017
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Do your thoughts constantly wander?
Do your body and mind show signs of stress overload?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, then listen in as Mikey Siegel gives insights on the technologies that can help you learn to slow your heart rate and find calm even in the middle of stressful situations.
Mikey Siegel is a teacher at Stanford University with a background in engineering and technology. His passion lies in helping people use technology to learn mindfulness, improve their mood and change their world from the inside out.
Here’s a few of the things he’ll share:
* What tech-augmented meditation is and how it can improve your mental well-being
* The new ways neuroscience and meditation are intersecting
* Easy steps to start meditating and how to reap the benefits fast—even if you don’t know what you’re doing
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:08.0 | Future Technologies Boys To Transform Our Lives, for better or worse, are the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | Almost here, means these technologies are now here and |
| 0:16.7 | starting to be used. |
| 0:18.2 | We're just around the corner. |
| 0:19.7 | From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:22.0 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:25.6 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast. |
| 0:29.4 | Today I have an interesting guest, Mikey Siegel. He did a TED Talk at TEDx I believe Santa Cruz on robotics |
| 0:37.3 | and consciousness and consciousness hacking so I'm really glad to talk to him. Mikey, how you doing? |
| 0:43.0 | I'm doing great. |
| 0:44.0 | Thanks for having me, Rich. |
| 0:45.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:46.0 | So I know listeners probably won't have watched the TED Talk yet, |
| 0:50.0 | but if you can just give like a brief intro of yourself and where you're at right now and then you know we'll get into our topic and maybe you can discuss how you came to be interested in this topic as well. |
| 1:01.6 | Yeah totally. Yeah, totally. |
| 1:03.5 | So a bit of background, as you mentioned, |
| 1:05.9 | I have a background in robotics, |
| 1:08.9 | and I can talk a little more about that later. |
| 1:11.8 | And where I am now is actually looks quite different from robotics. |
| 1:17.6 | Everything that I'm doing right now is focused at the intersection of engineering and technology and then a very unlikely |
| 1:26.9 | a counterpart which is consciousness well-being, meditation, human flourishing, really thinking about what is our human |
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