Joon: I was a geek kid. So i don't think it's writ in the sky one must cry at a funeral. You can use that time to celebrate the person's life, however brief they were on earth. There are people who go through surgery without anaesthesia by going into a meditative state. It's just amazing how much control we can really have beyond what we even think is physiologically possible. We can control our own physiology. Nhat wercause pain doesn't happen in your arm. It happens in your brain.
What is the science behind meditation? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Marcia Belsky discuss mental health, meditation, and the theory of consciousness with former news anchor, Dan Harris and neuroscientist Heather Berlin, PhD.
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