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How meditation can help you live a flourishing life, with Richard Davidson, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

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What Is the Story Behind Mindfulness Meditation?

Meditation has been an important part of your life, but it wasn't part of your academic research for the first couple of decades in your career. And i understand it was actually the dolly lama who inspired your research in this area. Can you t tell us that story? A, certainly id be happy to. So i became interested in meditation very early on in my career. I had the a opportunity to be around some people who were meditators. And theya just impressed me with their demeanour. They were the kind of people i wanted to be around. It's one of the first forms of a, a traditional asian style meditation that was taught in the

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