Grab your wet suits and oxygen tanks.

We are diving deeper into the science of meditation on this episode of Live Happy Now.

The ancient Greeks defined happiness as the joy you feel moving towards your potential.

To think about positive psychology, it's a science.

And it's actually younger than the internet, believe it or not.

The reality is that social connection is in the research the greatest predictor we have of long-term happiness.

You have some factors in your control.

They can promote the health and resilience and growth of your absolutely most important asset, which is your brain.

And so it all comes down to understanding ourselves.

There's a way for all of us to succeed, but it might take different things.

We're all looking for the same thing, and that's a way to bring a little bit more joy to our day.

Join us as we look at the many different paths that lead us to that happy place.

This is Live Happy Now.

Hello once again and greetings. Welcome to another edition of the Live Happy Now podcast.

I'm your host, J.R. Houston. When we last left you, our science editor, Paula Phelps,

was talking with John Cavett Zinn, the internationally known scientist, writer,

meditation teacher who's bringing mindfulness to the mainstream.

And they're going to dive a little bit deeper this time. They're going to continue their discussion

as they explore the various studies that have been conducted regarding mindfulness.

With mindfulness, we talk a lot about there are so many distractions today, have we did we used to be more mindful and

we got away from it or is this something that's always well you know I I don't know because

I wasn't alive way back when but you could argue that in the sense mindfulness was selected for an evolution because if we weren't particularly

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