Dr. Richard Davidson

Not a lot of words, but just a note to remind you when you're finished with this session.

And I have the conviction that there's a lot of creative work that humans do on a regular basis that's kind of like dreams.

Most people don't remember their dreams.

but they occur reliably.

And I think that there's a lot of creative thought that occurs on a regular basis, but we just don't pay attention to it and we forget it just like we forget our dreams.

But if we have the invitation to really inspect our mind in that way, I think this chaos actually often contains the seat of real creative insight that potentially could be valuable.

I love that.

I actually have, I mean, this may seem contrary to...

views of how meditation is done, but when I meditate every morning, I actually have a little notepad by my cushion, and occasionally, I don't do this every session, but maybe twice a week, I'll actually write down something during the meditation, one or two words, just to remind me, because something comes up in my practice, maybe an idea, and I want to

I know also that I won't remember it after in the same richness.

And so I'll just jot it down and then go back to my practice.

Yes, it's been studied, we actually developed what we've called a mindfulness-based kindness curriculum for preschool kids.

And we've actually published a randomized controlled trial in a public school system of this curriculum.

And the curriculum is available freely on our website in both English and Spanish.

So if any teachers are out there or you know teachers and want to use it, please feel free to download it and see how it is.

But yeah, so it looks very different.

So for example, what we do with a three-year-old, one of the exercises that they love is we ring a bell in a classroom and we have them listen to the sound

And as soon as you no longer hear sound, raise your hand.

And it's amazing to see this because you can get 25 3- and 4-year-olds sitting perfectly still for around 10 seconds.

But, you know, they could taste it.