Finding Your Right Mind — with Vanessa Potter

Today I talk to Karin Matko, a meditation researcher who has investigated over 300 different meditation styles as part of a study that asked meditators: "what do you do when you meditate?" in an attempt to  re-categorise "meditation techniques".  We talk about body-centred methods, movement meditations, Sufi whirling and meditating on death. If you thought mindfulness was the only way to meditate — we have news for you! 

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So...you don't just don a portable EEG headset that records your brain activity, flop on your sofa and bat away your kids saying 'I'm just gonna meditate now for 600 hours or so...' That doesn't just happen — right? There has to be a reason — a driver to do something like that — to put your life on hold and invite scientists to observe and measure your inner, most intimate thoughts and feelings. Of course, there is a reason and it may not be the one you're expecting it to be...

Permit me to explain the backstory...

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Find out how an off-the-wall 3-year meditation experiment with Cambridge neuroscientists might help you understand yourself just a little bit better.

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