The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
as a neuroscientist meditation is a perceptual exercise it can be done to enhance focus by focusing on a specific location behind the forehead or looking at a a light it can be um an uh open monitoring meditation where you're intentionally not trying to focus on any one thing
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I think of it as a perceptual exercise first, like you're deliberately setting your perception internally, not externally. I understand there's these insights into consciousness, improve sleep, reduce stress, but that's all secondary and tertiary to me. What is the consequence of going into of the doing the practice of meditation? Directing your state inward as opposed to outward, eyes closed, focusing inward, breathing in a controlled way. What does that do to dopamine and serotonin andor what are dopamine and serotonin just doing when you go from like a conversation that we're having to a meditation?