Brian Meshkin

Award-Winning Health Tech Exec @ocbizjournal @octaneoc @EOY_MY @SmartCEO | Dad | LDS | Social Entrepreneur | Impact Investor | Fmr @HCPSS School Board Member

[Brian Meshkin @meshkin]

@SecKennedy @nytimes Keep up the great work Bobby! You are saving America’s future - our children’s health. They cast 0% of our votes but they are 100% of our future. We’ve got your back!

[Brian Meshkin @meshkin]

Very insightful Instruction from @GerritWGong on "Faith, Dignity, and Human Flourishing: Hearing God’s Voice in an Age of Artificial Intelligence." #AI #faith @Ch_JesusChrist https://t.co/koX6PKUQlN

[Brian Meshkin @meshkin]

@ITalkOfChrist Thanks for sharing!

[Brian Meshkin @meshkin]

What a great object lesson from Elder @Gerald_Causse. This weekend, as a Stake High Councilor, I gave a talk about how "Prophets & Apostles Lead us to Jesus Christ". I really enjoyed this story: Lessons from a Ten Dollar Bill | Jesus Christ Turns Ordinary Things Into Extraordinary Things @Gerald_Causse https://t.co/XNjG8T46dy #jesus #faith #lds #treasuresinheaven #priorities @Ch_JesusChrist

[Clint Teeples @TeeplesCY]

Someone praying for you in another building can change your brain in real time. There is a study that proves it.

Researchers at North Hawaii Community Hospital placed 11 people inside fMRI scanners, fully isolated. In a separate building, spiritual leaders who knew them personally sent focused intentions toward them at random two-minute intervals. The receivers had no way to know when. Their brains lit up at the exact moments the senders focused on them. Specific regions associated with attention and awareness activated on cue. The odds of this happening by chance were less than one in seven thousand.

Most people have never heard of this. Here are three more.

Hand-holding and pain. Researchers placed 22 couples under EEG caps. When the woman was in pain and her partner held her hand, their brain waves synchronized. The more empathy he felt for her, the more their brains coupled. The more their brains coupled, the more her pain decreased. Touch combined with focused care produced a measurable analgesic effect. The lead researcher got the idea while holding his wife's hand during the birth of their daughter.

Two brains in shielded rooms. A Mexican neuroscientist named Jacobo Grinberg ran a series of experiments at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Two participants meditated together for 20 minutes. Then they were placed in separate electromagnetically shielded rooms more than 14 meters apart. One participant was shown 100 random flashes of light. The other, hooked to an EEG with no sensory contact of any kind, registered matching brain-wave responses one out of every four flashes. Pairs who had not bonded showed nothing.

Group prayer. Andrew Newberg at Thomas Jefferson University has spent more than two decades scanning the brains of praying nuns, meditating monks, and chanting Sikhs. His imaging work shows a consistent pattern. The frontal lobes activate. The parietal lobes quiet. The effect amplifies in groups. Brains in shared prayer entrain to one another the way two pendulums swinging in the same room eventually fall into the same rhythm.

These studies measure what physically happens to the human nervous system when people focus caring attention on each other, in the same room or at a distance. The findings are consistent across labs, methods, and decades.

The basic finding, that human brains synchronize during empathic connection, is now mainstream neuroscience. Newberg alone has published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers.

People have been doing this for thousands of years and calling it prayer. Christians alone offer a window into the variety. Latter-day Saints kneel as families. Catholics pray the rosary. Protestants join hands in prayer circles.

What is actually happening when you pray? On the imaging, something measurable. On the EEG, something synchronized. On the pain scale, something diminished.

Prayer works.

[Brian Meshkin @meshkin]

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[Brian Meshkin @meshkin]

@TeeplesCY Exciting times!

[Brian Meshkin @meshkin]

@ThoughtfulSaint A victory for the good guys!!

[Brian Meshkin @meshkin]

Exciting to hear that we will have Sunday School, Elders Quorum, Relief Society, Young Men’s and Young Women’s, as well as Primary every week. No more trying to remember if it’s a Sunday School week or an EQ/RS week! #simplify #restoration

[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints @Ch_JesusChrist]

In advance of the upcoming general conference leadership session (April 2, 2026), The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced upcoming adjustments to the Sunday class meeting schedule to support members in their efforts to be lifelong disciples of Jesus Christ. The adjustments will strengthen gospel learning in homes and congregations throughout the world.

Beginning September 6, 2026, the alternating weekly schedule for Sunday School and quorum or class meetings will be replaced. Under the updated schedule:

• Sunday School, Relief Society, elders quorum, Young Women and Aaronic Priesthood quorum meetings will be held each week.
• Sacrament meeting will continue to be 60 minutes, followed by brief transition periods.
• Sunday School and quorum and class meetings will each be 25 minutes.
• Primary will continue every Sunday and will be 55 minutes, held while adults and youth attend their respective classes.
• Where local circumstances necessitate, units may begin with Primary and quorum and class meetings and conclude with sacrament meeting.

Visit the link below to learn more:
https://t.co/CKcSp2FiWP

[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints @Ch_JesusChrist]

PHOTO OF THE WEEK: With the start of Holy Week this Sunday, may we remember the love of the Savior Jesus Christ, who was willing to lay down His life for all of us, His friends. Learn more about the new statues of Christ at Temple Square on Newsroom.

Learn more on Church Newsroom.

https://t.co/g9m7hCUDVI

[Brian Meshkin @meshkin]

Love these new statues. The image of carrying the cross is so powerful.

[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints @Ch_JesusChrist]

Two new statues, “Jesus Christ Carrying the Cross” and “Jesus Christ in Gethsemane,” have debuted on the south side of the Salt Lake Temple. Visitors can view the statues from a distance as the statues are in an area of Temple Square still under construction. 

Their placement comes at a meaningful time of year, the Easter season, which holds profound significance for Christians around the world as they commemorate the final week of Jesus Christ's life, culminating in His Resurrection.

Learn more on Church Newsroom.

https://t.co/g9m7hCUDVI

[Brian Meshkin @meshkin]

@Ch_JesusChrist Such wonderful news! The restoration continues…

[Brian Meshkin @meshkin]

So excited to see this! Been calling for this to happen for years! Now the Ward Mission Leaders should be allowed to be couples as well!

[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints @Ch_JesusChrist]

The March 2026 update to the Church’s “General Handbook,” prepared under the direction of the First Presidency, includes several adjustments.

A few of them are:

Revised language emphasizing ordinances and covenants as central in God’s work of salvation and exaltation (chapter 1)
Updated information about calling ward Sunday School presidencies that are all men or all women (13.2.2.1)
A new section about caring for the earth (38.8.6)
These updates are online and will appear in the Gospel Library app in the next 24 to 48 hours.

Visit the link to learn more on Church Newsroom.

https://t.co/XvzECyNJtj

[Brian Meshkin @meshkin]

This is #Easter. This is #GreaterLove. I am so grateful to know that Jesus Christ rose from the dead - with a glorified and perfected body with scars. I know that Jesus is the Son of God with flesh and bones. He is risen. He lives. And He leads a living church today. @Ch_JesusChrist #saintsonx #ldsx #lds https://t.co/cZ2iU8a9c1

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

We’ve spent decades telling kids that if they get good grades and go to college, opportunity will be waiting on the other side… Today, only 22% of US high school seniors are proficient in math, with the US ranking 28th among developed nations.

- Alpha School: K–12 private school network using AI tutors + mastery-based learning to compress academics into 2 hours a day

- Kids learning 2–10x faster using AI-driven mastery (not teacher-at-the-front)

- 1535 average SAT for seniors (vs ~1024 national average)

- Students consistently scoring in the top 1–2% nationally

[Brian Meshkin @meshkin]

Excited for the new hymns released on Feb. 26, 2026 @Ch_JesusChrist #ldsx #saintsonx #lds
“Joyfully Bound”, “My Covenants”
“When I Am Baptized”, “The Power of the Holy Ghost”
“Elijah and the Still, Small Voice”
“Jesus Is My Shepherd”
“My Song in the Night”
“This Is My Father’s World”
“Build an Ark”
“Love Will Bless Our Home”
“Lord, Accept Our Humble Fast”
“Long Ago, Within a Garden”

https://t.co/3P2lg5m7GI

[Brian Meshkin @meshkin]

Thank you Elder @AndersenNeilL. I listened to your talk on Tuesday morning at the gym as struck by the principle of authorized witnesses. It really made me reflect. As a Stake High Councilor and counselor in Stake Young Men’s Presidency, I believe we need to echo this teaching you have shared. I will be doing so. Thank you for all you do!

[Brian Meshkin @meshkin]

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[Brian Meshkin @meshkin]

I love the recent talk by President @OaksDallinH at @BYU “Coming Closer to Jesus Christ”. His instruction around truth and those who would spread lies has particularly hit home for me as I have been harmed by those who would spread lies - both personally and professionally. Truly, “the adversary has become so effective at disguising truth” as we live in a post-truth, fake news, misinformation world now. We must rely on the Holy Spirt! #saintsonx #lds

“I feel to emphasize the warning President Russell M. Nelson issued us that “in coming days, it will not be possible to survive spiritually without the guiding, … comforting, and constant influence of the Holy Ghost.” One of the many reasons you will need the constant influence of the Holy Ghost is that you live in a season where the adversary has become so effective at disguising truth that if you don’t have the Holy Ghost, you will be deceived. Many obstacles lie ahead. The distractions will be many. Even active members may sometimes have concerns about some historical, doctrinal, or social issues connected with the Church. I want to help all our members overcome present or future doubts. Whatever those doubts, the way to overcome them is to get closer to our Savior, Jesus Christ. Again and again, He has taught us that He is the way.”

https://t.co/ImNYYpb4zH

[Brian Meshkin @meshkin]

I believe in Easter! He is risen! The Son of God in flesh and bones resurrected in a complete state - even with His scars. He lives. God the Father lives. And His Church lives. And He still speaks to us today. @Ch_JesusChrist

[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints @Ch_JesusChrist]

As Mary Magdalene and her companions mournfully approached the Garden Tomb, two angels appeared to them and shared the clarion call of all Christianity:

"Why seek ye the living among the dead?"

"He is not here, but is risen" (Luke 24:5-6).

This Easter season we also joyfully testify of this same eternal truth—Jesus Christ is risen. He lives!

The Savior of the world was crucified and, on the third day, rose from the dead, "the firstfruits of them that slept" (1 Corinthians 15:20). His Resurrection allows all to be resurrected, and through His grace, we can find peace "which passeth all understanding" (Philippians 4:7) and "be perfected in him" (Moroni 10:32).

We invite each of you during this Easter season to "seek this Jesus of whom the prophets and apostles have written" (Ether 12:41). As you do so, we testify that your Easter celebrations can strengthen your own faith and testimony that "death is conquered; man is free. Christ has won the victory" ("He Is Risen!" Hymns, no. 199).

—The First Presidency
@OaksDallinH
@EyringHB
@ChristoffDTodd