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Altered Traits
Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body | Daniel Goleman, Richard Davidson
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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 (…more)
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BulkingBookie
Mehso-so

Altered traits is a thorough investigation on the current science of meditation. Goleman ("Emotional Intelligence") and Davidson, two lifelong friends, share stories of studying brains, enlightened hermits, and their own peace of mind. They present facts and dispell hype. Being accurate means more exposition, and entertainment comes the autobiographic bits. It's not a self-help book, but a compelling meditative one.

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Well-ReadNeck
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I‘ve been reading a lot of meditation and/or yoga books lately. This one is a mixed bag. + does a good job of being a review of scientific research on meditation in one place and addresses two ideas that I think are interesting: do different types of meditation affect the brain differently and what benefits are received my beginning, intermediate and expert meditators. On the other hand, the writing style has a lot of author centered narrative ...

Well-ReadNeck ... that I found unnecessary and off-putting. And, the info in this book is found many other places in bits and pieces and often presented in a more readable format. 8y
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