nandi slides 1st interview
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Your experiences change your brain.
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Lazar, et al. 2005.
Meditation
experience is
associated
with increased
cortical thickness.
Neuroreport, 16,
1893-1897.
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You can use your mind
To change your brain
To change your mind for the better
To benefit yourself and others.
5Inner Strengths Are Built From Brain Structure
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Inner Strengths Include
Capabilities
Positive emotions
Attitudes
Virtues
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Inner strengths are grown from
experiences of them that are
turned into neural structure.
Good traits come from good states.
Growing Inner Strengths
Have It, Enjoy It
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But There’s a Problem
Your brain is good at learning from the bad.
But bad at learning from the good.
Even though learning from the good
is the primary way to get the good stuff
Into your brain and your life.
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Velcro for Bad, Teflon for Good
11The Negativity Bias
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We can deliberately use the mind
to change the brain for the better.
Take in the Good
Have a Good Experience
Enrich It
Absorb It
Link Positive and Negative Material
Have a positive experience.Enrich it. Absorb it.Link positive and negative material. (optional)
HEAL Yourself
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Growing Gratitude
Take in gratitude: Have the experience – Think about some of the
good facts in your life . . . Food in the fridge, people you love, flowers blooming, chocolate . . . Open to a growing feeling of gratitude . . .
Enrich it – Help it last . . . Feel it in your body . . .
Absorb it – Sense it sinking into you . . . Let it land inside you . . . Receive it like a sponge . . .
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Be mindful of the difference between:
an idea and an experience, and
having an experience and internalizing it.
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Over time,
lots of little good things
add up to big good things inside you.
The Law of Little Things
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Think not lightly of good, saying, "It will not come to me.”
Drop by drop is the water pot filled.
Likewise, the wise one, gathering it little by little,
fills oneself with good.
Dhammapada 9.122
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People who like you
Feeling caring
Getting stuff done
Beauty
Music
Food
Relaxing
Cozy pleasures
Spiritual moments
Seeing the good in yourself
Times to Take in the Good
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Find good facts?
Have good experiences?
Takethemin?
Have It, Enjoy It