Dr. Amishi Jha

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Okay.

So let's even, let's talk about the term meditation because I want to kind of demystify that as well.

From the neuroscience point of view, meditation, which is part of every major world spiritual tradition, I see it as engaging in

specific activities to cultivate specific mental qualities.

Think about the analogy of the term meditation to the term sports, right?

It's a sport.

You have a general category of, okay, yeah, you're doing something, it's physical, but there are a whole variety of sports.

What somebody has to do to become an Olympic-level athlete

you know, gymnast is very different than going and golfing.

Got it.

So the specificity matters.

Okay.

But it tells us that meditation is a good umbrella term for a category of human activity to cultivate something.

Usually good stuff, right?

Okay.

That's why we would say it's connected to wisdom and spiritual practices.

Mindfulness meditation is a very specific way that we're going to do exercises to cultivate a mindful mode.

And I'll tell you what I think that means.

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