Wellness through meta-awareness

This episode discusses meta-awareness, knowing where our mind is AND what our mind is doing. Richard Davidson, a Professor of Psychology at University of Wisconsin-Madison, spoke about ‘meta-awareness’ as one of four pillars of wellbeing. Also, this paper by Drs Killingsworth and Gilbert shares some fascinating insights about why "a wandering mind is an unhappy mind". (http://www.uvm.edu/pdodds/files/papers/others/2010/killingsworth2010a.pdf) Amishi Jha, a Psychologist at the University of Miami, talks about Breath Awareness practice as a “foundational workout for the brain’s attention system” and this episodes invites you to think about ways to incorporate breath awareness to improve your overall skill of meta awareness. Stay tuned for the companion episode - a guided practice to facilitate breath awareness. We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening, much metta, Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/