How To Trick Your Brain for Happiness

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September 15, 2012 a project of ServiceSpace The education of attention would be an education par excellence. - William James - How To Trick Your Brain for Happiness "In recent years, we have started to better understand the neural bases of states like happiness, gratitude, resilience, love, compassion, and so forth. And better understanding them means we can skillfully stimulate the neural substrates of those states -- which, in turn, means we can strengthen them." In this article, Rick Hanson describes how to skillfully use the mind to amplify positive connections in the brain. { read more } Be The Change Pay attention to a positive experience today, and use Hansen's three steps for taking in the good. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News 25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer Four Ways to Respond in an Argument Offbeat Graduation Speech Gets Standing Ovation Benefits of Rising Early -- and How to Do It The Joy of Quiet How to Transform Negative Emotions 7 Practices to Cultivate Compassion 8 Weeks to a Better Brain DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 120,162 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More