Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from Five Star App Meditation Studio.

I'm Patricia Carpice, co-founder of Meditation Studio, and your host on Untangle, along with my co-host today, Ariel Garden.

Join us each week as we introduce you to authors, experts, and thought leaders who

share their stories on how meditation and mindfulness practices have the power to change

our lives. To kickstart the new year, if you haven't already, you can download the meditation

studio app in the app store where you'll find over 500

meditations on everything from sleep, stress, and anxiety to happiness, motivation,

confidence, and so much more, all designed to inspire you to solve the big and little

challenges we face in life and to be your very best self every day.

Our app is like having a little inspirational coach in your back pocket when you're facing any challenge.

Today, join you's co-founder, neuroscientist, Brainiac, and Untangle co-host, Ariel Garten, as she goes inside the head of her

amazing guests.

Thanks, Patricia.

Hello, I'm Ariel, and I'll be your guide as we go inside the head of some of the world's

most extraordinary brain scientists, psychologists, meditators, those who are skilled in the mental

arts. And we're going to learn both from their cutting-edge work and their own human experience,

how our brains work, how to optimize them, and how to manage the crazy in all of our minds.

This week, we're going to get inside the head of Dr. Shama Rahman.

She's a PhD neuroscientist who studies creativity and flow.

And so this week, we're going to flow inside of her brain and learn how to get creative.

She's going to teach us about the neuroscience of flow and creativity and how we can spend more time in those states.

So welcome, Shama. We're

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