My guest for this episode is Dr Sara Lazar from Harvard University. She’s a researcher who looks into the impacts that yoga and meditation have on various cognitive and behavioural functions.
Meditation has exploded in popularity in recent years. Once thought of as a purely spiritual practice, the physical and mental benefits of it are now being recognised by science.
While the health benefits are widespread and remarkable, what I’m more intrigued about is the idea of self-mastery. A sentiment echoed by celebrated thinkers for millennia is that mastery of oneself is in a way a prerequisite for flourishing.
In our discussion, we cover:
Your Brain on Politics: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Liberals and Conservatives
This episode is with Dr Fatima Nasrallah, a senior scientist and researcher from the Queensland Brain Institute. Last year (2016), they released a publication called ‘The Brain’ where they highlight what the recent science has to say about concussions – particularly with regards to sport.
My guest for this episode is Dr Sara Lazar from Harvard University. She’s a researcher who looks into the impacts that yoga and meditation have on various cognitive and behavioural functions.
This episode is on emotions and how recent research has changed how we view these feelings that influence our lives.
Explore a unifying principle of life and its implications for our societal evolution.
