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Meet Harvard's Professor Of "Happiness" | Dr. Robert Waldinger

The Checkup with Doctor Mike

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The Importance of Meditating

I felt like people would think I wasn't serious. It's taken me a while to feel comfortable enough so that now, you know, casually on a Monday say, how was your weekend? And I say, well, I spent the weekend at a retreat. Do you think evidence-based medicine needs to catch up with that? Of course. We want to try to do it. They teach this to preschoolers, to elementary school kids, and they love it. If you learn that this is a research that you could just sit down and breathe quietly with your eyes closed, kids, when kids learn what it is and they can feel themselves calm down, they loveIt.

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