Why Your Brain Stops Taking Everything Personally

We talk with Dr. Sara Lazar about why mindfulness meditation can feel life-changing beyond lower stress and how that shift maps onto stages of ego development and perspective taking. 

We connect equanimity to measurable changes in meaning making and to brain regions tied to the narrative self, compassion, and self-referential processing. 

• why stress and anxiety scores miss the deeper “new perspective” change 
• Piaget-style stage shifts as a model for psychological growth 
• ego development from egocentric to world-centric views 
• perspective taking and meaning making as the core stage change 
• sentence stem testing as a window into hab...