Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from 5-star app Meditation Studio and Muse, the brain-sensing

headband that helps you meditate.

I'm Patricia Carpus.

I'm really excited about this last podcast of the year because I love how this guest goes

on her own personal journey to understand how meditating for a year straight can actually change your

life. Our guest is Shannon Harvey, an award-winning Australian health journalist, author, and

filmmaker. Overwhelmed with insomnia, an autoimmune disease, and a family history of

mental health issues,

Shannon was highly motivated to find a way to address the challenges she faced,

but also those we all faced with the growing epidemics of stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction.

Out of this mission and a deep curiosity came her film and now book My Year of Living

Mindfully.

In the film Shannon committed to meditating every day, as I said for 365 days, and to put

meditation to the test, she enlisted a team of top scientists from around the world to measure

the impact of meditation. They tracked everything from her stress hormones to her immune function,

to her cellular aging and gene expression, to her subjective well-being. Could learning to quiet

our busy minds, she wondered, be the simple solution the world so desperately

needs? What began as a self-experiment transformed into a life-changing experience for Shannon. Her hope is that

the film will spark meaningful conversations and help us all feel a bit more grounded and calm as we face the inevitable challenges of being human.

I loved this film.

Now, here's Shannon.

Shannon, it is so great to have you on Untangle today. Thanks for being here.

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