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Scott Weingart discusses the scientific aspects of meditation. He believes meditation is to the mind what exercise is to the body. There are two types of meditation: focussed attention meditation or vipassana, and contemplative meditation. Generally, people exist in a default mode network. This happens when we are not focussed on anything in particular and thoughts occur in our brain without us being aware of it. Spending a few minutes every day aware of what thoughts are occurring in our brain is highly beneficial. This helps with stress control, relaxation response control, slowing of telomere degradation, control over emotions and increased concentration. Scott, however, wants us to focus on a single objective benefit of meditation - controlling the stimulus-response gap. Viktor E. Frankl explains - “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Meditation helps to choose our responses to stimuli, both go