December 2025
Beginner
1472 pages
27h 42m
English
Mindfulness has caught on widely in the business world. But what is it, really? Mindfulness is, quite simply, the skill of being present and aware, moment by moment, regardless of circumstances.
For instance, researchers have found that practicing mindfulness can reprogram the brain to be more rational and less emotional. When faced with a decision, meditators showed increased activity in the posterior insula of the brain, which has been linked to rational decision-making. This allowed them to make decisions based more on fact than emotion. That’s good news, since other research has found that reasoning is actually suffused with emotion. Not only are the two inseparable, ...
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