How to Get Smarter, One Breath at a Time – Lisa Takeuchi Cullen

“Attention is the key to learning, and meditation helps you voluntarily regulate it,”says Richard Davidson, director of the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin. Since 1992, he has collaborated with the Dalai Lama to study the brains of Tibetan monks, whom he calls “the Olympic athletes of meditation.” Read more