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Secular Meditation at AHA

Rick Heller

Presentation at American Humanist Association Conference.

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by Rick Heller

Neuroscientist Sara Lazar, DT Strain and I presentated a panel on meditation at the American Humanist Association national conference earlier this month. Lazar has produced a number of important studies showing how mindfulness affects the brain, including one showing durable changes to the brain's gray matter. Below are the slides I presented about secular meditation:

Image from Gazzaley Lab, which has been notified of its use.