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If you want evidence before you invest your time, this one's for you. Wanting to know how something works before you commit isn't resistance. It's intelligence.

Episode Three is about what's actually happening in your body and brain when you meditate.

Your nervous system has two gears. The problem is that the alarm can't tell a house fire from burnt toast, and modern life is very good at burning toast. Most of us walk around with that system half-on for years. The stress response was built as an emergency broadcast. We've turned it into background music.

Almost none of it answers to you directly. One thing does, and that's where the practice gets in.

We also get to why the wandering mind is the whole exercise rather than the failure. Why exercise doesn't make you stronger and recovery does. And what a study of London taxi drivers has to do with your attention.

There's a gap between what happens and how hard you react to it. That gap is where your choices live.

Try the three breaths while you listen. You'll feel it move.

Join me next time for Episode Four. Is There a Right Way to Do This?

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Reading Your Own Life With Swami Larry is written and hosted by Larry Lee. Season One is based on a manuscript written by Swami Larry with Faith Bleasdale.

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