Why Meditation Matters: Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson with Richard Gere

Richard Gere talks with the New York Times-bestselling authors as they 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. In their new book, Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body, 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.
Recorded on September 5, 2017 at 92nd Street Y.
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[@listeningprofano]

I slept well, practiced meditation, started watching this talk, and had a wonderful experience.

[@ucntcit]

probably the most underrated and undervalued practice in human history. especially in modern times.

[@mrrohitjadhav470]

Agree

[@freethinker79]

Its the gift that keeps on giving! Simple, free of cost, and can be done anytime, anywhere as much as you like. The benefits are truly unlimited, profoundly enriching and permanently transformative. "Meditation can give you that which nothing else can give you. It introduces you to yourself." --Swami Rama

[@azatmingalimov]

It wasn't always like this. India for example could boast that it societally supported meditators, and real practical spiritual search was part of life, a stage of life. Organized religions that came on the back of enlightened masters changed this, supplanting real search and inner experience by blind belief. So it wasn't underrated at all in the olden times, in times of Buddha and before. But yes, it's been lost now to systems of control masquerading as religion, which is the saddest thing in life for me, with nothing coming even close to the depth of that sadness.

[@beatrixvantil8623]

Mr. Gere 's questions and comments are helping to build the bridge between eastern and western world , mind and heart ♥, experience and technique . a global sangha is on its way ..thank you for sharing 💛🧡❤

[@josedominguez1743]

27:41 Two kinds of meditations researched.

[@MaungMaungOo23]

Huge respects to all

[@curewish574]

Withought thoughts ......Emptiness inherent; thanks too 92Y and the panel.

[@susydyson1750]

love this talk ! a revelation that must be listens to more than once

[@freethinker79]

The Kingdom of Heaven is within you. Meditation is how you find it.

[@jenniferwells9032]

Always loved Richard, he’s spot on 🥰❤️❤️

[@Knowformo]

Thnks for sharing the truth

[@nankanjafoundation]

Richard Gere highschool favorite moviestar

[@nankanjafoundation]

Thanks guys

[@talker1975]

Why voice is so low?

[@BarceMessi]

love

[@NaryHappysuffering]

🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️😊😊😊👍👍👍✊✊✊🇺🇸🇰🇭

[@daysjours]

Audio is just awful. Shameful that the Y does not have proper production.

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

Congratulations to Davison (is it? the guy in the middle) for keeping his cool as Gere leans over to breathe in his face. I guess meditation must work!

[@charlierana4420]

World 🌎 Greatest Actor and world Greatest Nero Scientists

[@chemistryinsinhala]

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@curewish574]

61 or 68 its never too late........

[@LightworkBeacon]

🕊❤️

[@superstar-vk9rk]

🌍only in the World True☸️ ✨☸️🪷Namo Buddha Namo Nama🏔️🕊️✨

[@dabbog5518]

HealingLoveALL

[@maytepineiro4626]

Que alguien lo traduzca al español, por favor Graciaa de antemano.