Dr. Rangan Chatterjee

You can cultivate presence.

I like you have meditation as a regular feature in my life.

And the reason I couldn't do earlier is because I misunderstood what meditation was.

And these days I love it.

And we spoke about the worrying news stories earlier on in this conversation and the impact that has on our immune system and our stress levels.

But I always think back to the Dalai Lama quotes when he said, if every eight year old on the planet was taught how to meditate, we'd eliminate violence within a generation.

Which is beautiful and I believe it to be true.

And as we speak, Jenna, I've done something that I haven't done before, which is, you know,

on all my channels, we're doing a March meditation challenge in partnership with an app called The Way by Henry Shookman.

Yeah, Henry did the meditation retreat I was on and Henry's been on the show twice.

And that app, I think, is for me, the best meditation app I've come across.

So we partner with them.

And at the moment, as of last night, there's 20,000 people we've got meditating on The Way during March.

And I hope that, you know, this has got 30 free meditations there for people.

And my hope is that,

that's enough time to, because I think two or three days is not really enough, even a week.

You need to do it enough to go, oh, this is what it brings to my life.

So I'm hoping some of them continue with the practice afterwards.

And I think those solitude stillness practices, they really help us with the meaning of life.

You won't know this, but the first thing I underlined in your book, and one of the first things was a quote from my mum's favourite poet of all time.