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Shinzen Young: Meditation Is Three Trainable Skills | Head First Archive
Episode 17
Monday, 19 October, 2026

From the archive: this Head First conversation with Shinzen Young was recorded in 2018. Shinzen breaks meditation into three trainable skills: concentration, sensory clarity, and equanimity. We get into pain and suffering, the structure of attention, long-term practice, consciousness, and the places where contemplative experience reaches beyond the available neuroscience. One dated detail matters. Near the end, Shinzen mentions a first human study planned for a few weeks after this recording. That is a 2018 project update, preserved here as part of the original conversation. Shinzen Young developed the Unified Mindfulness system and wrote The Science of Enlightenment: How Meditation Works. Host: Dr. Andrew Hill, cognitive neuroscientist and founder of Peak Brain Institute. Watch the interview video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpx6ZhbzXpc Learn about QEEG brain mapping and personalized neurofeedback training: https://www.peakbraininstitute.com/contact-us/locations