Neuro-theology pioneer Dr. Andrew Newberg uses fMRI and other neuro-scientific tools to study religious experiences in the brain. In today’s lesson, he discusses how meditation, even in a completely secular context, can be a very powerful tool for improving brain performance.“If you’re at your desk and you feel like the world is just flying around you and you need to take a moment,” he says, “you can literally just sit there at your desk, put everything down. You can close your eyes and hopefully you can close your door or block out your ears and just concentrate on your breath.”After following a meditation exercise that Newberg recommends, “you will feel that little bit of rejuvenation,” he says. “You’ll feel a little bit better focused, and you’ll be able to go back to concentrating a little bit better on whatever the next task is at hand.”