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The biology of mindfulness
In a new interview with The New Humanism's editor Rick Heller, Daniel Siegel (above) lays out the neurological fundamentals of smelling a rose, the mental architecture of a mirage—and of always wanting a new toy (just not the iPhone 4). He has taken a particular interest in understanding how past experience conditions our perceptions, and he describes himself to Heller this way: I'm a narrative scientist. I'm fascinated with how the stories we have embedded in our life histories shape how we perceive things. More »
