Welcome to episode 252 of Live Happy Now.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week we're going to talk about something we all know about,

we all know we should do, but we might have trouble finding time for it in our busy lives.

Meditation has incredible healing value for both our mind and our body, and today's guest is on a mission to get the whole world meditating.

Ariel Garten is a neuroscientist, psychotherapist, mom, former fashion designer, and the founder of the tech company Muse created to make meditation easier.

She has spoken about the benefits of meditation on stages around the world,

ranging from TED Talks to MIT to South by Southwest.

This week, she's here to talk about how we can master the art of meditating

and find ways to fit it into our hectic lives.

All right, welcome to live happy now.

It is a complete pleasure to be here.

I mean, what is better than living happy now?

Oh, exactly.

And you have so much to say about this.

We have so many points that we can touch on with you because of what you've done and your interest in meditation and the things that you're doing to move meditation forward. So I guess a great starting point is to find out how you personally got interested in

meditation. Sure. So my own background is trained as a neuroscientist and I was working as a

psychotherapist for almost a decade. And I began working with an early brain computer interface device. So a little

electrode that could track the changes in your brain activity. And we recognize that the best

thing we could do with this device was to teach people to meditate. We had some insight into

what was going on in people's brains. And the brain is the seed of all of our experience

anything you think see smell talk about it is all mediated by your brain but we have so little access to

it and when we recognize that we had a way to help people reflect back on what was going on in their

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