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Nandi slides 1st interview
Your experiences change your brain by building inner strengths through neural structures formed from those experiences. While the brain is good at learning from bad experiences, it is not as good at learning from good experiences, even though learning from the good is how to develop inner strengths. We can deliberately use the mind to change the brain for the better by having positive experiences, enriching them, absorbing them into our neural structures, and linking both positive and negative material. Over time, taking in many small good experiences builds up to significant inner strengths.
Nandi slides 1st interview
- 1. 1 Your experiences changeyour brain.
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- 3. 3 Lazar, et al.2005. Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness. Neuroreport, 16, 1893-1897.
- 4. 4 You can useyour mind To change your brain To change your mind for the better To benefit yourself and others.
- 5. 5 Inner Strengths AreBuilt From Brain Structure
- 6. 6 Inner Strengths Include Capabilities Positiveemotions Attitudes Virtues
- 7. 7 Inner strengths aregrown from experiences of them that are turned into neural structure. Good traits come from good states. Growing Inner Strengths
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- 9. 9 But There’s aProblem 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.
- 10. 10 Velcro for Bad,Teflon for Good
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- 13. 13 We can deliberatelyuse the mind to change the brain for the better.
- 14. Take in theGood
- 15. Have a GoodExperience
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- 18. Link Positive andNegative Material
- 19. Have a positiveexperience. Enrich it. Absorb it. Link positive and negative material. (optional) HEAL Yourself
- 20. 20 Growing Gratitude Takein 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 . . .
- 21. 21 Be mindful ofthe difference between: an idea and an experience, and having an experience and internalizing it.
- 22. 22 Over time, lots oflittle good things add up to big good things inside you. The Law of Little Things
- 23. 23 Think not lightlyof 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
- 24. 24 People who likeyou Feeling caring Getting stuff done Beauty Music Food Relaxing Cozy pleasures Spiritual moments Seeing the good in yourself Times to Take in the Good
- 25. 25 Mon Tues WedThurs Fri Sat Sun Find good facts? Have good experiences? Take them in?
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