“Being distracted exacts a cost on our well-being,” Davidson tells Shriver. “If we become more mindful of our everyday activities, we can learn well-being and become happier.” Indeed, a recent study out of Davidson’s lab at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center, U-W Madison, on compassion meditation demonstrated that just 30 minutes of practice a day over the course of two weeks was enough to produce a change in behavior and in brain function. Click the image above to get a full preview of Davidson’s research.  The infographic is from August issue of Mindful magazine. (You can also preview Mindful‘s feature story on Davidson.)