Dr. Amishi Jha
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 4 Jul
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So all that stuff can start happening.
And it was really the one word that got me like, what?
this is what i should try and that word was meditation okay and at that moment as a again a up-and-coming neuroscientist a serious person who devoted her life to science i was like yeah i'm not doing that i was i'd written it off entirely um not only because it was not something
that I thought a serious scientist would study at that point.
This is the early 2000s.
Okay.
But I had this whole cultural background where I had known about meditation.
In fact, my earliest memories are seeing my parents meditating.
And I thought it was great for them, but not something I would do.
But I did give it a try.
I actually went into Penn's bookstore and looked in the meditation section and super lucked out because the book I ended up picking up was something called Meditation for Beginners by Jack Kornfield.
And that got me to start following a path that was really about practices that I could do daily.
And it was actually a recording of a retreat.
So he was giving guided practice.
It was a CD, came with a book.
And what I realized after about a month of doing this is not only did I felt like
I was there again.
My attention was back available to me, but that everything in these instructions was about attention.
And so it became sort of like, I've got to study this.
So my lab's entire research program sort of pivoted toward incorporating, not just understanding how attention works, but what we can do to make it stronger and more capable in the face of high stress circumstances like those I was experiencing as a professor.
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