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 for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level. Unveiling here the kind of cutting-edge research that has made them giants in their fields, Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson show us the truth about what meditation can really do for us, as well as exactly how to get the most out of it.
Sweeping away common misconceptions and neuromythology to open readers' eyes to the ways data has been distorted to sell mind-training methods, the authors demonstrate that beyond the pleasant states mental exercises can produce, the real payoffs are the lasting personality traits that can result. But short daily doses will not get us to the highest level of lasting positive change-even if we continue for years-without specific additions. More than sheer hours, we need smart practice, including crucial ingredients such as targeted feedback from a master teacher and a more spacious, less attached view of the self, all of which are missing in widespread versions of mind training. The authors also reveal the latest data from Davidson's own lab that point to a new methodology for developing a broader array of mind-training methods with larger implications for how we can derive the greatest benefits from the practice.
Exciting, compelling, and grounded in new research, this is one of those rare books that has the power to change us at the deepest level.
Über den Autor Daniel Goleman
Daniel Goleman, geboren 1946 in Stockton, Kalifornien, lehrte jahrelang als klinischer Psychologe an der Harvard Universität, daneben gab er die Zeitschrift 'Psychology Today' heraus. Heute ist er der für Psychologie und Neurowissenschaften verantwortliche Redakteur der 'New York Times'. Neben seinem 1995 erschienenen Bestseller 'EQ: Emotionale Intelligenz' liegen von ihm auf deutsch vor: 'Lebenslügen' (1993), 'Meditation: Wege nach innen' (1994), 'Kreativität entdecken' (1997, als Herausgeber zusammen mit Paul Kaufman und Michael Ray) sowie 'Der Erfolgsquotient' (1999).