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Meditation training changes the brain. Recent reports suggest that 70 or more hours of standardized training in mindfulness meditation across 8 weeks shifts electroencephalographic (EEG) asymmetry toward a pattern associated with positive emotion (Davidson et al., 2003) and increases gray matter in the left hippocampus (Hölzel et al., 2010). Such training is dwarfed by the 10,000 or more hours accumulated by expert Buddhist practitioners (Lutz, Greischar, Rawlings, Ricard, & Davidson, 2004), but it likely represents a daunting commit-ment to many people. We examined whether frontal EEG asymmetry could be generated by a more accessible amount of meditation training. Method Following the study’s approval by the University of Wisconsin– Stout’s institutional review board, 29 right-handed nonmedita-tors participated in return for meditation instruction. Twenty-six individuals completed the study; 21 (6 men, 15 women; mean age = 24.52 years, range = 18 to 73 years) pro-vided EEG data before and after a 5-week meditation training period. Before random assignment to condition, participants com-pleted an 18-min protocol consisting of oral completion of th