Meditations to Change Your Brain, by Rick Hanson PhD & Richard Mendius (3CDs) Debra Stern, HNGN: Sarah Lazar’s voice was calming even over the phone as she demonstrated, for this interview, a typical start to a mindfulness practice. “Notice you are breathing in and breathing out. Can you just be aware and really feel what it feels like as air passes through your nostrils?” she asks, gently.
“It may sound incredibly boring,” she says with a chuckle. “But things start to quiet down inside.”
According to Lazar, assistant professor of psychology at Harvard University, observing your breath without self …