Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
A Neuroscience, Science, Psychology book. Every time you take in the good, you build a little bit of neural structure. Doing...
Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were born with brains built essentially like anyone else's. Then they used their minds to change their brains in ways that changed history.With the new breakthroughs in neuroscience, combined with the insights from thousands of years of contemplative practice, you, too, can shape your own brain for greater happiness, love, and wisdom.Buddha's Brain joins the...
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- ISBN: 9781572246959 / 1572246952
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Every time you take in the good, you build a little bit of neural structure. Doing this a few times a dayfor months and even yearswill gradually change your brain, and how you feel and act, in far-reaching ways. Rick Hanson, Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom If you can break the link between feeling tones and cravingif you can be with the pleasant without chasing after it, with the unpleasant without resisting it, and with the neutral without ignoring itthen you have cut the chain of suffering, at least for a time. Rick Hanson, Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom The autobiographical self (DAmasio 2000) incorporates the reflective self and some of the emotional self, and it provides the sense of I having a unique past and future. The core self involves an underlying and largely nonverbal feeling of I that has little sense of the past or the future. If the PFCwhich provides most of the neural substrate of the autobiographical selfwere to be damaged, the core self would remain, though with little sense of continuity with the past or future. On the other hand, if the subcortical and brain stem structures which the...
I only have a few things to say about this book. First of all it's heavy on the vocabulary of the brain. It basically gives you a science lesson throughout much of the book. The "exercises" in this book are more like tips for using the information. I should warn a lot of you that if you are interested in this book then use the physical... An enlightening book, full of useful techniques to promote compassion, insight and wisdom. Many of the ideas were familiar, but that did not detract from the book. I liked the combination of neuroscience and meditative techniques. I will attempt to use the techniques in my daily life."All joy in this world comes from wanting others... This book seemed to want to come into my life. I kept walking past it in the bookstore and it kept coming up as a recommendation on Amazon. Finally one day I broke down and bought it. I was not disappointed. In in, the authors take many of Buddha's teachings and show, through neuroscience, how they change the brain for the better. I've...
