A few years ago, I began to observe something in my own behavior that made me a bit uncomfortable. From the moment I woke up to the end of the day, my life was a series of screens. I started the day with the thing that woke me up first thing in the morning: my phone. I sat there in bed watching various cooking videos on Instagram and bouncing around between different applications. But then it was time to get out of bed and cook breakfast, and the thing that I focused on, in addition to the omelette in the pan, was the iPad next to the oven. Then it was time to do some work, so I went to a different screen which was attached to another screen itself. All the while, this little devil on my wrist was tapping and beeping and blooping, distracting me as I tried

Two years ago, my life changed forever. My wife Kelsey and I welcomed our daughter Lela into the world. Becoming a parent is an amazing experience. Your whole world changes overnight, and all of your priorities change immediately. So fast that it makes it really difficult to process sometimes. Now, you also have to learn a tremendous amount about being a parent, like, for example, how to dress your child. This was new to me. This is an actual outfit; I thought this was a good idea. Even Lela knows that it’s not a good idea. So there is so much to learn and so much craziness all at once. To add to the craziness, Kelsey and I both work from home. We’re entrepreneurs; we run our own businesses. Kelsey develops courses online for yoga teachers. I’m an author. So, I’m working from home, Kelsey’s working from home, we have

Over the last 15 years as a psychiatrist, I’ve used meditation in my practice to treat depression, anxiety, stress, post-traumatic stress disorder, and also medical conditions like hypertension, migraines, eczema, and a lot more. And over the next fourteen minutes or so, I’d like to share my thoughts about meditation, about why meditation is probably the single most important skill we can learn in today’s world, about how it helps our brain, and also a brief demonstration of the practice. We’ve talked a lot about technology, and there’s absolutely no doubt that we have done amazing things because, as human beings, we have the most highly developed brain on this planet. The crown jewel of evolution is our brain, and because of that, we can create things, we can create technology, we have shaped and reshaped this planet, we can examine the smallest atom and contemplate and actually go into