The Dalai Lama the 14 th asked Richard R. Davidson to study the effect of meditation on the body and the brain with the latest scientific methods. One result was the PNAS paper from 2004: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407401101 And for instance the following YouTube video about the brain waves of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche: Daniel Goleman s explanations …