I don't really follow meditation hype. But my impression is that poor studies are cited as "proof" of meditation's benefits, findings that apply to advanced meditators are sometimes touted as accruing to beginners, and, occasionally, some benefits are simply imagined. This may be most true in the business world, where many companies are bringing in teachers who are a bit loose in their use of research as evidence for the usefulness of the method.

If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.

The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.

CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.

Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety?

Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance.

Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.