Altered Traits Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
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25289
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Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
04.09.2018
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Penguin LLC USSeitenzahl
336
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20,3/13,5/1,8 cm
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320 g
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Englisch
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978-0-399-18439-0
Two New York Times bestselling authors unveil new research showing what meditation can really do for the brain.
In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level. Unveiling here the kind of cutting-edge research that has made them giants in their fields, Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson show us the truth about what meditation can really do for us, as well as exactly how to get the most out of it.
Sweeping away common misconceptions and neuromythology to open readers eyes to the ways data has been distorted to sell mind-training methods, the authors demonstrate that beyond the pleasant states mental exercises can produce, the real payoffs are the lasting personality traits that can result. But short daily doses will not get us to the highest level of lasting positive change even if we continue for years without specific additions. More than sheer hours, we need smart practice, including crucial ingredients such as targeted feedback from a master teacher and a more spacious, less attached view of the self, all of which are missing in widespread versions of mind training. The authors also reveal the latest data from Davidson s own lab that point to a new methodology for developing a broader array of mind-training methods with larger implications for how we can derive the greatest benefits from the practice.
Exciting, compelling, and grounded in new research, this is one of those rare books that has the power to change us at the deepest level.
In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level. Unveiling here the kind of cutting-edge research that has made them giants in their fields, Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson show us the truth about what meditation can really do for us, as well as exactly how to get the most out of it.
Sweeping away common misconceptions and neuromythology to open readers eyes to the ways data has been distorted to sell mind-training methods, the authors demonstrate that beyond the pleasant states mental exercises can produce, the real payoffs are the lasting personality traits that can result. But short daily doses will not get us to the highest level of lasting positive change even if we continue for years without specific additions. More than sheer hours, we need smart practice, including crucial ingredients such as targeted feedback from a master teacher and a more spacious, less attached view of the self, all of which are missing in widespread versions of mind training. The authors also reveal the latest data from Davidson s own lab that point to a new methodology for developing a broader array of mind-training methods with larger implications for how we can derive the greatest benefits from the practice.
Exciting, compelling, and grounded in new research, this is one of those rare books that has the power to change us at the deepest level.
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Comprehensive overview of scientific literature of academic study of meditation
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I would describe the book as meeting almost all criteria associated with the gold standard of communication of science to wider masses.
The book offers a comprehensive overview of the academic study of meditation. The authors offer a brief history of how the field evolved over time. They go on to describe the methodology employed in the field and how to assess the quality of individual studies. In line with these guidelines, the authors present only findings from studies that satisfy the highest standards of evidence and highlight any findings that should be viewed with caution.
The reader is being presented with both individual mechanisms that connect individual practices of meditation to a range of benefits and the corresponding evidence. The fact that individual study results were only described as either showing statistical significance or not is somewhat disappointing. Providing effect sizes could have helped the reader in determining whether any particular practice of meditation really does provide a benefit that is clinically meaningful and worth pursuing.
Overall, the authors have struck a fantastic balance of providing a reasonably comprehensive overview of the scientific literature, maintaining a great level of insight and knowledge while managing to keep the book to c.300 pages.
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