How Mindfulness Affects Your Physiology

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"I didn't realize there was a whole sort of combining neuroscience with that," he says. "The interesting aspect about that and why I think it's beneficial is one part of it is, if you will, relaxing the body." It helps your physiology shift from a stress mode or engagement of your sympathetic nervous system to engagement of your rest and digest system.

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Jim Doty is a clinical professor of neurosurgery at Stanford University and founder and director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford. These days he spends his time researching compassion and the links to our brains. He is also the author of the self-help book called Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart.

This conversation was fascinating in it we talk about a whole bunch of things including neuroscience, mindfulness, medical school, negative self-talk, compassion and meeting the Dalai Lama.

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