I think a lot of us skip meditation. There's so many other things on the list.

It feels selfish to stop. I mean, exercise feels good to do because we're working, we're doing something, we're being active.

Eating well, we know we made this good choice, we're going to feed it to our families now, and there it feels like, you know, it spreads out.

But meditation can almost feel like this selfish act. Like, do I really have time to just sit quietly for 10 minutes? I'm not doing anything. But it turns out that when you do meditate, you're doing a lot. There's a lot going on under the hood during that meditation session. And it benefits not just you, but your family and your community and everybody around you.

Hello, my friends.

Welcome back to another episode of Better with Dr. Stephanie.

It's me, your host, Dr. Stephanie Estima.

If you have tried and failed and feel like you absolutely suck at calming yourself down, at trying to reduce your cortisol and your stress. I have an episode for you. My guest today is Ariel Garden,

and we are talking all about neurofeedback and how we can use practices like a neurofeedback device, maybe through meditation,

maybe through sleep, to help with a variety of different things. Stress being the number one,

stress and anxiety, sleep, and cortisol and inflammation, all the things that women in midlife

deal with. Ariel is a neuroscientist. She's a

former psychotherapist, a fashion designer turned entrepreneur, and the co-founder of Muse. It is a

brain-sensing headband designed to help people meditate, sleep, and train their brain. She has

studied biology, psychology, with neuroscience designation at the

University of Toronto, and she's worked in labs researching Parkinson's disease and hippocampal

neurogenesis, and she is now the co-founder of Interaxon, which developed the Muse Brain

Sensing Headband. So what do we talk about in this conversation? Well, we talk about what happens to the brain as it

ages. What are some of the fundamental changes, the areas of the brain that age, some age faster than

others, some areas of the brain get more active, some areas get less active, and how we can

actually change that for the better as we're aging.

We talk about that ruminating voice.

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