FEST Colleagues,
Just a quick note to say we are organizing a 2 day conference on the science of meditation and family that will occur September 28+29 in Vermont. We are bringing together Fred Travis, a NIH funded meditation researcher, Laurie Lassiter, and myself to further this multi-disciplinary dialogue. We are accepting abstracts for 15 minute presentations until June 15th.
For more information go to www.btvt.org.
Erik
Sounds interesting!
Regarding the science of meditation, I’ve noticed that a lot of the stress researchers credit meditation in studies to reduce stress. Perhaps meditation offers, for one thing, a way out of social stress related to hierarchy, SES, social climbing, expectations from family and society, etc.