Episode 12: Your Brain on Meditation (Ariel Garten)

What this episode covers

As brain sensing technologies advance, we will be able to have more and more insight on what is going on in our brain during meditation, and whether we are going in the right direction in our meditation. In this episode I'm interviewing Ariel Garten. Ariel is a Psychotherapist, Neuroscientist, Entrepreneur, Public Speaker, and the CEO of Interaxon, the company behind Muse, which is a brain sensing headband that helps people meditate - a clinical grade EEG in your pocket. We talk about: - Ariel's personal journey into meditation; - How Muse works, and what type of meditation is best suited for; - How therapists and other health professionals are using Muse to help their clients/patients; - Where brain technology is moving towards in the near future - The challenges with brain modulation tech

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