How powerful is meditation? We’ve heard all the wonderful benefits about it for years from the spiritual community. But now, for the first time, we have officially entered a new age where the scientific community backs up the mystical, and even surpasses what we have previously known about meditation. In this episode, Anand teams up with Dr. Hemal Patel, a Professor and Vice-Chair for Research in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of California, San Diego, to share basic insights into how the meditating mind creates physical changes to alter the biology of living systems. Dr. Patel’s laboratory is poised to link physics, biophysics, and biology to potentially transform our understanding of the mind’s power to change human health.