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The book is called Altered Traits and the authors again, Richie Davidson and Danny Goldman and here they are.

Let me say that the title Alter Traits was really harking back to conversations we had in those days where we were pondering the fact that there seemed to be lasting qualities that were the fact and maybe the goal of meditation practice and that people were pretty enamored of altered states in those days but we thought there was something more to look at.

We wanted to show that there is now evidence, meditation, trains your attention as it helps your stress handling stress. It helps in innumerable ways that have been shown by rigorous studies.

It seems the point was of the book is to sort the wheat from the chaff, just to show there's a lot of science that maybe isn't as strong as it should be when we're going to talk about why people should meditate.

Our aspiration that this book can help promote the kind of mental exercise that we are talking about as meditation and that mental exercise will become as commonly practiced in the future as physical exercises today.

I'm working on a book manuscript right now which I hope to have published.

And I picked up a little Tick-Not-Hon book and we should say who he is. A Vietnamese Zen master.

He's written a bunch of best-selling, sciencey books, including the evolution of God, non-zero, the moral animal.

the last book that I wrote with the same publisher fsg The Road Home was really kind of my hopefully 21st century personally relevant sort of overview of the Buddhist teachings especially from the a modern chambala perspective.

he and I are turning this into a book that's going to come out at New Years called Meditation for Figuity Skeptics which tackles all the reasons why people aren't meditating and helps you get over the hump.

Our teacher Shinsen is a real expert at actually at teaching people on managing pain. He wrote a book called Break Through Pain.

And he also wrote a book last year that I've been listening to, which is really fascinating. It's called Porcelain.

What the title of that great John Cavitt's in book Wherever You Go, There You Are.

first is blind spot by anthony greenwald and mazeran bonagy so these are the preeminent scholars of unconscious bias and have done a lot of the research that be now apply in our trainings

and the third book that comes to mind is um whistling the vality it's by klot stio also a social psychologist and he talks about how stereotyped threat and all these other psychological phenomenons take place

and then the cookbook is called the plant power way.

I looked at Dan Goldman's model and became a student of that and actually trained Emotional Intelligence, you know, sort of in an academic environment to cops and realized okay, now they know about Emotional Intelligence but they're not building skills in Emotional Intelligence.

I got one from Victor Frankl so this guy wrote the book Man Search for Meaning. He says between stimulus and response there's a space in that space is our power to choose our response and in our response lies our growth and our freedom.

So one of the things I am passionate about is integrating mindfulness and meditation in nature. So I love it. Which is the subject of your first book of life.

We've just brought out our first special publication where we've repurposed content from mindful magazine to a beautiful book getting started in mindfulness for beginners bringing all of that content from various issues together in a beautiful edition though.

One of our mutual friend David Gellis who wrote an excellent book called Mindful Workies a reporter for the New York Times and wrote about how mindfulness is showing up in workplace is all over all over the all over the country in the world.

he gave me John Cavazins first book Folk a Tastrophe Living and just every word of that book the phrase that comes up is dead poet's society when Robin William goes we don't read poetry we let it drip from our tongues like honey that's what it was like just to read it

Folk a Tastrophe Living is among his books he's also wrote a book wherever you go there you are all these are great books

And also you're really from my point of view seminal book of loving kindness early on which I have made this joke before that when I was reading it on airplanes I used to cover it up like it was a penthouse because I didn't want anybody to see that reading the book of loving kindness.

I'm loving kindness was my first book at Kibab 1995 when I started working on loving kindness I didn't even have a computer you know cutting and pasting meant getting a pair of scissors literally and you know cutting out the paragraph and moving it up and down the page and getting a roll of scotch tape and then taping it where you wanted it to go I did have a computer before the end