Our Emotional Brain - All In The Mind - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Pioneering neuroscientist Richard Davidson deepens our understanding of the mind-body connection.  He’s identified six unique emotional styles and explains the brain chemistry underlying them - resilience, outlook, social intuition, self-awareness, context, attention.
He explains that there are simple strategies and interventions which we can use to change our emotional styles. He believes one effective example is through mindfulness meditation, after studying the brain scans of people who practice it.
Our Emotional Brain - All In The Mind - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Lynne Malcolm:  But what about those of us who don’t choose to spend many, many, many hours of time practising mindfulness meditation?  How much meditation do you need to do?
Richard Davidson:  Great question and we’ve wondered about that ourselves and that has led us to do many studies now with ordinary people who are just learning to meditate for the first time.  And in our recent work we find as little as two weeks of practice for 30 minutes a day is sufficient to produce a discernable change in the brain that can be measured.  And recent findings in the scientific literature indicate that 8 weeks of meditation practice of mindfulness meditation can actually produce a structural change in the brain, a change in the physical structure that can be measured with a MRI scan.  So the answer is that relatively short amounts of practice can produce discernable changes in the brain.