Meditation | Science, Soul & Practice

You can have a genuinely excellent self-care practice, the meditation, the training, the tracked sleep, the nutrition, and still be using every bit of it to avoid the one question that actually needed asking.In this episode, I turn the mic on myself. After 14 years and thousands ...  Show more

We've been calling it a loneliness epidemic and treating it like a mental health problem. NYU developmental psychologist Niobe Way says that's the wrong diagnosis, and she has almost 40 years of data on teenage boys to make her case.Niobe Way has spent nearly four decades running ...  Show more

You may have heard about emotional intelligence, but have you really ever paused to think about where you fall on the spectrum, and how it’s influencing your relationships and place in the world? It actually impacts everything, from our family lives to our leadership abilities an ...  Show more

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: 03:58 - How a famed Harvard psychologist inspired Daniel Goleman to study high performance. 07:00 - How spiritual teachers like Ram Dass and Neem Karoli Baba led him to study meditation. 12:35 - What neuroscientists have discovered about the impact ...  Show more

Silicon Valley CEOs, Tibetan monks, and crunchy hippies alike describe meditation as blissful and life-changing, but what does the science say? Can it reduce stress, increase your attention, and improve mental health -- or is all this focus on breathing just a bunch of hot air? S ...  Show more

Sam Harris speaks with Daniel Goleman and Richard J. Davidson about the current scientific understanding of meditation practice. They speak about the original stigma associated with meditation, the history of introspection in eastern and western cultures, the recent ...