How do you discuss the mechanism and potential benefits of meditation with your patients?  

What is the benefit of meditation practice? Thoughts and emotions are molecules interacting in a chemical solution called the human body. We cannot change a molecule that is already here, but when we change the chemical solution in which molecules of thought and emotion are arising, interacting, an...

I modify the discussion based on the background and interests of the patient. So, if a patient is already doing such things as yoga, then I may just describe meditative practice as coming from that tradition as an add-on to their existing belief system. But for those who want more of a science-based...