Why can't you use those same tools to look at a personand see what's right with them?" At...

Why can't you use those same tools to look at a person
and see what's right with them?" [narrator] At the time, there were only
a few dozen studies on meditation. But Richie and his colleagues
changed that. Now, more than a thousand studies
come out every year. But not all of them are reliable. One review of over 8,000 studies
of meditation’s impacts on health found just 47 of them were designed
well enough to trust the results. And there wasn’t good evidence that
mindfulness could affect substance use, eating habits, sleep, or weight. Today, we see people using these practices
to treat diseases, both psychiatric illnesses
and medical illnesses