Why Wealth Doesn't Buy Happiness — Technologies of Consciousness and the Neuroscience of Lasting Wellbeing

Sarah explains why positive thinking is a surface-level intervention, introduces the three scientifically distinct categories of meditation (Open Monitoring, Focused Attention, and Automatic Self-Transcending), and describes how Transcendental Meditation produces restful alertness — a fourth state of consciousness with a metabolic drop twice as deep as sleep — and why this, not mood management, is the foundation of lasting happiness.