My teenage daughter is fascinated by the neuroscience of meditation and wants to understand how it's changing her developing brain, but I worry that focusing on the mechanisms is making her approach practice too goal-oriented rather than learning to simply be present with whatever arises.
More people experience this than they realize.
A parent and child are navigating different relationships to knowledge about meditation's effects on the brain.
“Where Are You with The neuroscience of meditation?”
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