Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body

Interesting as long as you know what to expect Daffy Du Altered Traits is the joint effort of two highly respected figures in the world of neuroscience and science journalism, Richard Davidson and Daniel Goleman, respectively. They're also longtime friends who share an abiding interest in the power of meditation.Dav. Jim said how mindfulness meditation changes personality traits. The subtitle references meditation in general but the focus of this book and of Goleman and Davidson in their lives is specifically on mindfulness meditation. "Altered Traits," an obvious takeoff on the term "altered states" (a neutral term that is nevertheless. Dame Droiture said I could probably do without a third of this book. I hate to give a book a so-so rating -- particularly one from an author I've read before and liked (e.g. Goleman's _Focus_). As another reviewer puts it, however, I also found "this book's first several chapters tedious." Although that reviewer didn't specify h

As I have personally experienced, regular meditation practice brings compassion, calm, and clarity for all of us, from beginners to experienced practitioners."—Bill George, Senior Fellow, Harvard Business School; former Chair & CEO, Medtronic; and author of Discover Your True North. Drawing on their own long personal meditative experience and the ever increasing number of scientific studies, Altered Traits breaks new ground in illuminating the power of meditation to transform our lives."—Joseph Goldstein, author of Mi

Davidson, PhD, is a renowned neuroscientist based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he directs the Waisman Brain Imaging Lab, the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience and the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds. Goleman has worked for decades making scientific findings from accessible. . Richard J. His books have been translated into more than 40 languages. Daniel Goleman, author of five New York Times bestsellers, is bes

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. 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 relations