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The Modern Science of Mindfulness, with Dr. Richie Davidson

Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean Fargo

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The Epigenetic Transmission of Awakening

Epigenetics is the science of how our genes are regulated. This provides us with a mechanism, if you will, to help us understand how different practices of meditation may lead to enduring changes in our experience and our behavior. In long term meditation practitioners, there are epigenetic changes that are induced by meditation practice. Those epigenetic changes influence many different systems in the brain and the body. And those mechanisms may be passed down across generations.

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