Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body (Hardcover)

from GlennBell

The book presents meditation or mindfulness as methods to improve focus and a variety of mental ailments including anxiety and attention deficit. The authors have spent a lot of time and effort researching this area. They promote these concepts as a method for improving society and personal healt...

from snowangel51

Beyond the pleasant states meditation produces, there are lasting traits that also result. The authors refer to these as "Altered Traits". They are profound changes in behavior and mind. This book is an effort to prove that meditation changes the structure of the brain. There is a lot of enthusia...

from fm4d

While I found the book highly informative and authoritative, considering the authors first-hand experience with both research on meditation and meditation as such, I simply cannot force myself to rate it higher then 3/5 stars because of the form. Its a common habit of many authors of popular scie...

from knightlight777

Two heavyweights in the field of psychologiy partner up in this book on meditation and their theory of perceived changes in traits for individuals practicing. The book itself if well researched and backed by extensive studies primarily of monks who are in a sense professional meditators. That is ...

from Kronomlo

The first half of this book talks about the first scientific studies on the effects of meditation on the brain, starting in the early 1970's. It follows the career paths of the authors, Goleman and Davidson, through their days both at Harvard and in India where they studied various forms of medit...