This document discusses how mental activity can physically change the brain through neuroplasticity. It describes the amazing capabilities of the human brain and how contemplative practices like meditation have been shown to alter brain structure and function. The brain naturally settles into a responsive mode of calm, contentment, and caring, but often shifts into a more reactive state of threat, desire, or isolation. Practices like mindfulness, self-compassion, and savoring positive experiences can help activate the brain's responsive mode and improve well-being.
Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and WisdomRick Hanson
How mental activity sculpts neural structure; the benefits and pitfalls of integrating neuroscience and psychotherapy; the neural substrates of self-compassion; and how to activate the lateral networks of mindful awareness.
More resources, freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net
How the brain’s “negativity bias” makes clients overestimate threats, underestimate opportunities, and underestimate inner and outer resources, leading to anxiety, anger, depression, and conflicts with others – and how to help clients overcome that bias, see the good facts about the others, the world, and themselves, and build resilience for happiness, healthy relationships, and occupational success.
More resources, freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net
Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom - Ri...Rick Hanson
How mental activity sculpts neural structure; the benefits and pitfalls of integrating neuroscience and psychotherapy; the neural substrates of self-compassion; and how to activate the lateral networks of mindful awareness.
More resources are freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net.
Self -Directed Neuroplasticity: Using the New Brain Research to Deepen Clinic...Rick Hanson
How mental activity sculpts neural structure; the benefits and pitfalls of integrating neuroscience and psychotherapy; the neural substrates of self-compassion; and how to activate the lateral networks of mindful awareness.
Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Inner Peace - Rick Hanson, PhDRick Hanson
Integrate the latest brain science research with the ancient wisdom of contemplative practice. Discover practical methods for improving mindfulness and concentration, calming the heart, weaving positive experiences into your brain and your self, and then bringing these new strengths into your relationships with both kindness and assertiveness.
More resources are freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net.
The Negativity Bias and Taking in the GoodRick Hanson
The brain's evolved bias is like Velcro for negative experiences, but Teflon for positive ones. The unfortunate results include stress and threat reactivity, anxiety, depression, and limited gains in psychotherapy. Happily, through tree steps of mindful attention, we can internalize positive experiences in implicit memory systems, weaving resources for well-being, coping, and kindness into the fabric of the barin and the self.
Use Your Mind to Change Your Brain: Tools for Cultivating Happiness, Love an...Rick Hanson
Tools for well-being, grounded in cutting-edge science and the wisdom of the world’s contemplative traditions.
More resources, freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net
Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and WisdomRick Hanson
How mental activity sculpts neural structure; the benefits and pitfalls of integrating neuroscience and psychotherapy; the neural substrates of self-compassion; and how to activate the lateral networks of mindful awareness.
More resources, freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net
How the brain’s “negativity bias” makes clients overestimate threats, underestimate opportunities, and underestimate inner and outer resources, leading to anxiety, anger, depression, and conflicts with others – and how to help clients overcome that bias, see the good facts about the others, the world, and themselves, and build resilience for happiness, healthy relationships, and occupational success.
More resources, freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net
Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom - Ri...Rick Hanson
How mental activity sculpts neural structure; the benefits and pitfalls of integrating neuroscience and psychotherapy; the neural substrates of self-compassion; and how to activate the lateral networks of mindful awareness.
More resources are freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net.
Self -Directed Neuroplasticity: Using the New Brain Research to Deepen Clinic...Rick Hanson
How mental activity sculpts neural structure; the benefits and pitfalls of integrating neuroscience and psychotherapy; the neural substrates of self-compassion; and how to activate the lateral networks of mindful awareness.
Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Inner Peace - Rick Hanson, PhDRick Hanson
Integrate the latest brain science research with the ancient wisdom of contemplative practice. Discover practical methods for improving mindfulness and concentration, calming the heart, weaving positive experiences into your brain and your self, and then bringing these new strengths into your relationships with both kindness and assertiveness.
More resources are freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net.
The Negativity Bias and Taking in the GoodRick Hanson
The brain's evolved bias is like Velcro for negative experiences, but Teflon for positive ones. The unfortunate results include stress and threat reactivity, anxiety, depression, and limited gains in psychotherapy. Happily, through tree steps of mindful attention, we can internalize positive experiences in implicit memory systems, weaving resources for well-being, coping, and kindness into the fabric of the barin and the self.
Use Your Mind to Change Your Brain: Tools for Cultivating Happiness, Love an...Rick Hanson
Tools for well-being, grounded in cutting-edge science and the wisdom of the world’s contemplative traditions.
More resources, freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net
Paper Tiger Paranoia - Rick Hanson, PhDRick Hanson
How the brain’s “negativity bias” makes clients overestimate threats, underestimate opportunities, and underestimate inner and outer resources, leading to anxiety, anger, depression, and conflicts with others – and how to help clients overcome that bias, see the good facts about the others, the world, and themselves, and build resilience for happiness, healthy relationships, and occupational success.
More resources are freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net.
Taking in the Good: Building Resilience into the Brain through Positive Exper...Rick Hanson
How the brain evolved a “negativity bias” that continually looks for, reacts to, and stores negative experiences; how this shapes the interior landscape of the mind, leading to pessimism, depressed and anxious mood, and over-reactions; the neural machinery of memory; how to “trick” that machinery into weaving positive experiences into the brain and the self, leading to greater resilience, happiness, and interpersonal effectiveness; applications to particular situations, including healing trauma, cooperation with medical or psychological treatment, and raising or teaching children.
Buddha's Brain: Lighting Up the Neural Circuits of Happiness, Love and WisdomRick Hanson
Combining the power of the latest brain science with the wisdom of contemplative practice, these are practical methods for centering your brain in its natural state of gladness, love, and peace.
Managing the Caveman Brain in the 21st CenturyRick Hanson
The human brain evolved in three stages: reptile, mammal, and primate. Each stage has a core motivation: avoid harm, approach reward, and attach to "us." Modern life challenges these ancient neural systems with bombardments of threat messages, the endless stimulation of desire, and social disconnections and tensions of industrial, multicultural societies. This talk will explore brain-savvy ways to cultivate mindfulness in young people, and then use that mindfulness to internalize a greater sense of strength and safety, contentment, and being loved.
Rick Hanson gave this keynote address for the Bridging the Hearts and Minds of Youth: Mindfulness in Clinical Practice, Education and Research Conference at the UCSD Center for Mindfulness in February, 2012.
Taking in the Good: Weaving Positive Emotions, Optimism and Resilience into t...Rick Hanson
How the brain evolved a “negativity bias” that continually looks for, reacts to, and stores negative experiences; how this shapes the interior landscape of the mind, leading to pessimism, depressed and anxious mood, and over-reactions; the neural machinery of memory; how to “trick” that machinery into weaving positive experiences into the brain and the self, leading to greater resilience, happiness, and interpersonal effectiveness; applications to particular situations, including healing trauma, cooperation with medical or psychological treatment, and raising or teaching children.
Steadying the Mind - Healing and Treating Trauma, Addictions and Related Diso...Rick Hanson
To stay alive in the wild, our ancestors evolved highly distractible attentional systems – which pose real challenges to developing greater mindfulness today. This presentation covers how attention works in your brain, and the implications of normal neurological diversity for the “turtles” and “jackrabbits” at either end of the spectrum.
New science is showing how mental activity sculpts neural structure. Using the power of self-directed neuroplasticity, you can target, stimulate, and thus gradually strengthen the neural substrates of well-being.
More resources are freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net.
Pairing Positive and Negative to Fill the Hole in the HeartRick Hanson
Implicit memory systems – including expectations, emotional residues and reactive patterns – are a primary target of therapy. Since they are vulnerable to change during consolidation, the skillful pairing of positive and negative material in awareness can gradually soothe and ultimately replace negative implicit memories. This workshop will explore neuro-savvy methods for doing this, including how to identify the positive material that will best "antidote" old pain or deficits in internalized resources.
Introduction to the neuroscience of mindfulness and meditation; brain-wise methods for steadying the mind, quieting it, bringing it to singleness, and concentrating it; an exploration of what could be happening in the brain during the non-ordinary states of consciousness
Taking in the Good: Helping Children Build Inner Strength and HappinessRick Hanson
Scientists believe the brain evolved a "negativity bias" that makes it like Velcro for negative experiences but Teflon for positive ones. This helped our ancestors survive, but it's bad for children (and parents) today - leading them to overreact, hold onto hurts and resentments, and have a harder time developing inner resources. To address this challenge, this presentation will use practical neuroscience to show how to weave positive experiences into the fabric of the brain and the self - including how to pair a positive experience with a negative one to heal old pain.
Rick Hanson gave this public lecture for the Bridging the Hearts and Minds of Youth: Mindfulness in Clinical Practice, Education and Research Conference at the UCSD Center for Mindfulness in February, 2012.
Not-Self in the Brain: Insights from Neuroscience about Not Taking Life Perso...Rick Hanson
The biological evolution of awareness and the apparent self; what neuroscience tells us about the distributed and endlessly variable neural nature of the apparent self; the stress, suffering, and interpersonal difficulties that come from “excesses of self”; the importance of healthy self-compassion and self-advocacy; how to heal injuries to self-worth; methods for taking things less personally, relaxing possessiveness, and feeling more at one with all things.
More resources, freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net
The Loving Brain - Healing and Treating Trauma, Addictions and Related Disord...Rick Hanson
Over millions of years, social abilities – such as bonding, empathy, compassion, language, and cooperative planning – really aided survival. Love, broadly defined, has profoundly shaped the evolution of the human brain.
Presented at Spirit Rock Meditation Center - December, 2011.
The biological evolution of awareness and the apparent self; what neuroscience tells us about the distributed and endlessly variable neural nature of the apparent self; the stress, suffering, and interpersonal difficulties that come from “excesses of self”; the importance of healthy self-compassion and self-advocacy; how to heal injuries to self-worth; methods for taking things less personally, relaxing possessiveness, and feeling more at one with all things.
Buddha's Brain: Lighting up Your Own Circuits of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom ...Rick Hanson
How mental activity sculpts neural structure; the benefits and pitfalls of integrating neuroscience and psychotherapy; the neural substrates of self-compassion; and how to activate the lateral networks of mindful awareness.
More resources, freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net
Paper Tiger Paranoia - Rick Hanson, PhDRick Hanson
How the brain’s “negativity bias” makes clients overestimate threats, underestimate opportunities, and underestimate inner and outer resources, leading to anxiety, anger, depression, and conflicts with others – and how to help clients overcome that bias, see the good facts about the others, the world, and themselves, and build resilience for happiness, healthy relationships, and occupational success.
More resources are freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net.
Taking in the Good: Building Resilience into the Brain through Positive Exper...Rick Hanson
How the brain evolved a “negativity bias” that continually looks for, reacts to, and stores negative experiences; how this shapes the interior landscape of the mind, leading to pessimism, depressed and anxious mood, and over-reactions; the neural machinery of memory; how to “trick” that machinery into weaving positive experiences into the brain and the self, leading to greater resilience, happiness, and interpersonal effectiveness; applications to particular situations, including healing trauma, cooperation with medical or psychological treatment, and raising or teaching children.
Buddha's Brain: Lighting Up the Neural Circuits of Happiness, Love and WisdomRick Hanson
Combining the power of the latest brain science with the wisdom of contemplative practice, these are practical methods for centering your brain in its natural state of gladness, love, and peace.
Managing the Caveman Brain in the 21st CenturyRick Hanson
The human brain evolved in three stages: reptile, mammal, and primate. Each stage has a core motivation: avoid harm, approach reward, and attach to "us." Modern life challenges these ancient neural systems with bombardments of threat messages, the endless stimulation of desire, and social disconnections and tensions of industrial, multicultural societies. This talk will explore brain-savvy ways to cultivate mindfulness in young people, and then use that mindfulness to internalize a greater sense of strength and safety, contentment, and being loved.
Rick Hanson gave this keynote address for the Bridging the Hearts and Minds of Youth: Mindfulness in Clinical Practice, Education and Research Conference at the UCSD Center for Mindfulness in February, 2012.
Taking in the Good: Weaving Positive Emotions, Optimism and Resilience into t...Rick Hanson
How the brain evolved a “negativity bias” that continually looks for, reacts to, and stores negative experiences; how this shapes the interior landscape of the mind, leading to pessimism, depressed and anxious mood, and over-reactions; the neural machinery of memory; how to “trick” that machinery into weaving positive experiences into the brain and the self, leading to greater resilience, happiness, and interpersonal effectiveness; applications to particular situations, including healing trauma, cooperation with medical or psychological treatment, and raising or teaching children.
Steadying the Mind - Healing and Treating Trauma, Addictions and Related Diso...Rick Hanson
To stay alive in the wild, our ancestors evolved highly distractible attentional systems – which pose real challenges to developing greater mindfulness today. This presentation covers how attention works in your brain, and the implications of normal neurological diversity for the “turtles” and “jackrabbits” at either end of the spectrum.
New science is showing how mental activity sculpts neural structure. Using the power of self-directed neuroplasticity, you can target, stimulate, and thus gradually strengthen the neural substrates of well-being.
More resources are freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net.
Pairing Positive and Negative to Fill the Hole in the HeartRick Hanson
Implicit memory systems – including expectations, emotional residues and reactive patterns – are a primary target of therapy. Since they are vulnerable to change during consolidation, the skillful pairing of positive and negative material in awareness can gradually soothe and ultimately replace negative implicit memories. This workshop will explore neuro-savvy methods for doing this, including how to identify the positive material that will best "antidote" old pain or deficits in internalized resources.
Introduction to the neuroscience of mindfulness and meditation; brain-wise methods for steadying the mind, quieting it, bringing it to singleness, and concentrating it; an exploration of what could be happening in the brain during the non-ordinary states of consciousness
Taking in the Good: Helping Children Build Inner Strength and HappinessRick Hanson
Scientists believe the brain evolved a "negativity bias" that makes it like Velcro for negative experiences but Teflon for positive ones. This helped our ancestors survive, but it's bad for children (and parents) today - leading them to overreact, hold onto hurts and resentments, and have a harder time developing inner resources. To address this challenge, this presentation will use practical neuroscience to show how to weave positive experiences into the fabric of the brain and the self - including how to pair a positive experience with a negative one to heal old pain.
Rick Hanson gave this public lecture for the Bridging the Hearts and Minds of Youth: Mindfulness in Clinical Practice, Education and Research Conference at the UCSD Center for Mindfulness in February, 2012.
Not-Self in the Brain: Insights from Neuroscience about Not Taking Life Perso...Rick Hanson
The biological evolution of awareness and the apparent self; what neuroscience tells us about the distributed and endlessly variable neural nature of the apparent self; the stress, suffering, and interpersonal difficulties that come from “excesses of self”; the importance of healthy self-compassion and self-advocacy; how to heal injuries to self-worth; methods for taking things less personally, relaxing possessiveness, and feeling more at one with all things.
More resources, freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net
The Loving Brain - Healing and Treating Trauma, Addictions and Related Disord...Rick Hanson
Over millions of years, social abilities – such as bonding, empathy, compassion, language, and cooperative planning – really aided survival. Love, broadly defined, has profoundly shaped the evolution of the human brain.
Presented at Spirit Rock Meditation Center - December, 2011.
The biological evolution of awareness and the apparent self; what neuroscience tells us about the distributed and endlessly variable neural nature of the apparent self; the stress, suffering, and interpersonal difficulties that come from “excesses of self”; the importance of healthy self-compassion and self-advocacy; how to heal injuries to self-worth; methods for taking things less personally, relaxing possessiveness, and feeling more at one with all things.
Buddha's Brain: Lighting up Your Own Circuits of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom ...Rick Hanson
How mental activity sculpts neural structure; the benefits and pitfalls of integrating neuroscience and psychotherapy; the neural substrates of self-compassion; and how to activate the lateral networks of mindful awareness.
More resources, freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net
Using the Mind To Change the Brain: Talks @Google - Rick Hanson, PhDRick Hanson
Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were all born with a brain 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 insights from thousands of years of contemplative practice, you, too, can shape your own brain for greater happiness, love, and wisdom.
Written with neurologist Richard Mendius, M.D., and with a Foreword by Daniel Siegel, M.D. and a Preface by Jack Kornfield, Ph.D., Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom joins modern science with ancient teachings to show you how to have greater emotional balance in turbulent times, as well as healthier relationships, more effective actions, and greater peace of mind.
http://amzn.to/oLTD3B
Buddha's Brain: Natural Enlightenment and Unshakable Peace - Rick Hanson, PhDRick Hanson
Combining the power of the latest brain science with the wisdom of contemplative practice, this workshop will present practical methods for centering your brain in its natural state of gladness, love, and peace. In particular, you'll learn brain-savvy ways to reduce anxiety and irritability, feel stronger and safer, and clear old pain.
More resources are freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net.
Natural Contentment And Brain Evolution - Rick Hanson, PhDRick Hanson
With the power of modern neuroscience, informed by ancient contemplative wisdom, you can use your mind alone to change your brain for the better. Self-directed neuroplasticity involves steadying the mind (key to both worldly success and spiritual practice), cooling the fires of stress reactivity, weaving positive experiences into the fabric of your brain and self, and taking life less personally.
More resources are freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net.
Whose Brain Is It, Anyway? Part I - Rick Hanson, PhDRick Hanson
Talk given at Hampton Boys School, London, England.
* How your brain works
* Why that matters
* What you can do about it
More resources, freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net
Whose Brain Is It, Anyway? Part II - Rick Hanson, PhDRick Hanson
Talk given at Hampton Boys School, London, England.
* How your brain works
* Why that matters
* What you can do about it
More resources, freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net
Mindfulness and Taking in the Good: Using Neuroplasticity to Weave Resources ...Rick Hanson
How the brain evolved a “negativity bias” that continually looks for, reacts to, and stores negative experiences; how this shapes the interior landscape of the mind, leading to pessimism, depressed and anxious mood, and over-reactions; the neural machinery of memory; how to “trick” that machinery into weaving positive experiences into the brain and the self, leading to greater resilience, happiness, and interpersonal effectiveness; applications to particular situations, including healing trauma, cooperation with medical or psychological treatment, and raising or teaching children.
This presentation is about how the brain works from an educational point of view. It contain examples and a brief definition and an explanation of how the brain works.
Learn more about the brain
Here are a few videos about the human brain on YouTube:
For Adults:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7PjJkX9nyw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_5myLhhzwE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D33Aj5w061g
For Kids:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPfd80I9s1E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXu0-L4TAn4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7FdMi03CzI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nH4MRvO-10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kGv8jnB8EE
Psychology club hult prof. boshkoff presentation - march 23, 2012Kyle Daugherty
Slides from Professor Katherine Boshkoff's for the Hult Management Psychology Club's March 23, 2012 event Management Rewired: What brain science teaches us about engaging and influencing others.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
FIDO Alliance Osaka Seminar: Passkeys at Amazon.pdf
Rick Hanson
1. Using the Mind
To Change the Brain
Rick Hanson, Ph.D.
The Wellspring Institute
For Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom
www.WiseBrain.org
www.BuddhasBrain.com 1
drrh@comcast.net
2. Topics
! Your Amazing Brain
! Self-Directed Neuroplasticity
! Paper Tiger Paranoia
! The Optimal Brain
2
3. Common and Fertile Ground
Psychology Neuroscience
Contemplative Practice
3
4. We ask, “What is a thought?”
We don't know,
yet we are thinking continually.
Venerable Tenzin Palmo
4
6. Technical Specs
! Size:
! 3 pounds of tofu-like tissue
! 1.1 trillion brain cells
! 100 billion “gray matter" neurons
! Activity:
! Always on 24/7/365 - Instant access to information on demand
! 20-25% of blood flow, oxygen, and glucose
! Speed:
! Neurons firing around 5 to 50 times a second (or faster)
! Signals crossing your brain in a tenth or hundredth of a second
! Connectivity:
! A typical neuron makes ~ 5000 connections: ~ 500 trillion synapses.
! During one breath, a quadrillion-plus signals coursed through your head.
! Complexity:
! Potentially 10 to the millionth power brain states 6
8. Technical Specs
! Size:
! 3 pounds of tofu-like tissue
! 1.1 trillion brain cells
! 100 billion “gray matter" neurons
! Activity:
! Always on 24/7/365 - Instant access to information on demand
! 20-25% of blood flow, oxygen, and glucose
! Speed:
! Neurons firing around 5 to 50 times a second (or faster)
! Signals crossing your brain in a tenth or hundredth of a second
! Connectivity:
! A typical neuron makes ~ 5000 connections: ~ 500 trillion synapses.
! During one breath, a quadrillion-plus signals coursed through your head.
! Complexity:
! Potentially 10 to the millionth power brain states 8
9. The Mind/Brain System
! “Mind” = flow of information within the nervous system
! Information is represented by the nervous system.
! Most mind is unconscious; awareness is part of mind.
! The headquarters of the nervous system is the brain.
! In essence then, apart from hypothetical transcendental
factors, your mind is what your brain does.
! Brain = necessary, proximally sufficient condition for mind.
! The brain depends on the nervous system, which intertwines
with and depends on other bodily systems.
! These systems in turn intertwine with and depend upon nature
and culture, both presently and over time.
! And as we’ll see, the brain also depends on the mind. 9
11. Three Goal-Directed Systems
Evolved in the Brain
! Avoid “sticks,” threats, penalties, pain
! Approach “carrots,” opportunities, rewards, pleasure
! Attach to “us,” proximity, bonds, feeling close
! Although the three branches of the vagus nerve
loosely map to the three systems, the essence of
each is its aim, not its neuropsychology.
! Each system can draw on the other two for its ends.
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12. Love and the Brain
! Social capabilities have been a primary driver of brain evolution.
! Reptiles and fish avoid and approach. Mammals and birds
attach as well - especially primates and humans.
! Mammals and birds have bigger brains than reptiles and fish.
! The more social the primate species, the bigger the cortex.
! Since the first hominids began making tools ~ 2.5 million years
ago, the brain has tripled in size, much of its build-out devoted
to social functions (e.g., cooperative planning, empathy,
language). The growing brain needed a longer childhood, which
required greater pair bonding and band cohesion. 12
14. First Fact about Your Brain
As your brain changes, your mind changes.
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15. Second Fact about Your Brain
As your mind changes, your brain changes.
Immaterial mental activity maps to material neural activity.
This produces temporary changes in your brain and lasting ones.
Temporary changes include:
! Alterations in brainwaves (= changes in the firing patterns of
synchronized neurons)
! Increased or decreased use of oxygen and glucose
! Ebbs and flows of neurochemicals
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21. Christian Nuns in Prayer
Beauregard, et al., Neuroscience Letters, 9/25/06 21
22. Mental Activity Shapes Neural Structure
! The flows of mind sculpt the brain.
! Immaterial information leaves material traces behind:
! Increased blood/nutrient flow to active regions
! Altered epigenetics (gene expression)
! “Neurons that fire together wire together.”
! Increasing excitability of active neurons
! Strengthening existing synapses
! Building new synapses; thickening cortex
! Neuronal “pruning” - “use it or lose it”
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23. Lazar, et al. 2005.
Meditation
experience is
associated
with increased
cortical thickness.
Neuroreport, 16,
1893-1897.
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25. Perspectives on Neuroplasticity
! Neuroplasticity is not breaking news: For a century or more, it’s
been presumed that mental activity changed neural structure:
what else is learning? (The news is in the details of how.)
! Most neuroplasticity is incremental; occasionally it’s dramatic.
! Awareness increases neural structure-building. Residues of
conscious experience continually sift into implicit memory.
! Your experience matters. Both for how it feels now and for the
lasting threads it weaves into the fabric of your brain and being.
! Most experience is background, in the “simulator.” Thus the
importance of mindfulness, of searching inside yourself. 25
26. The education of attention
would be an education par excellence.
William James
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27. Third Fact about Your Brain
With that mindfulness:
You can use the mind
to change the brain
to change the mind for the better.
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29. The Negativity Bias
! In our evolutionary history, threats usually had more impact on
survival than opportunities. Sticks are more salient than carrots:
! The amygdala is primed to label experiences negatively.
! The amygdala-hippocampus system flags negative experiences
prominently in memory.
! The brain is thus like Velcro for negative experiences but Teflon for
positive ones.
! Consequently, the Avoid system routinely hijacks the Approach
and Attach systems, and “bad is stronger than good”:
! It takes five positive interactions to undo a negative one.
! People will do more to avoid a loss than get a gain.
! It’s easy to create learned helplessness, but hard to undo.
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30. Negative Experiences Can Have Benefits
! There’s a place for negative emotions:
! Anxiety alerts us to inner and outer threats
! Sorrow opens the heart
! Remorse helps us steer a virtuous course
! Anger highlights mistreatment; energizes to handle it
! Negative experiences can:
! Increase tolerance for stress, emotional pain
! Build grit, resilience, confidence
! Increase compassion and tolerance for others
But is there really any shortage of negative experiences?
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31. One Effect of Negative Experiences:
Health Consequences of Chronic Stress
! Physical:
! Weakened immune system
! Inhibits GI system; reduced nutrient absorption
! Reduced, dysregulated reproductive hormones
! Increased vulnerabilities in cardiovascular system
! Disturbed nervous system
! Mental:
! Lowers mood; increases pessimism
! Increases anxiety and irritability
! Increases learned helplessness (especially if no escape)
! Often reduces approach behaviors (less for women)
! Primes aversion (SNS-HPAA negativity bias) 31
32. Self-Compassion
! Compassion is the wish that someone not suffer, combined with
feelings of sympathetic concern. Self-compassion simply applies that to
oneself. It is not self-pity, complaining, or wallowing in pain.
! Self-compassion is a major area of research, with studies showing that
it buffers stress and increases resilience and self-worth.
! But self-compassion is hard for many people, due to feelings of
unworthiness, self-criticism, or “internalized oppression.” To encourage
the neural substrates of self-compassion:
! Get the sense of being cared about by someone else.
! Bring to mind someone you naturally feel compassion for
! Sink into the experience of compassion in your body
! Then shift the focus of compassion to yourself, perhaps with phrases
like: “May I not suffer. May the pain of this moment pass.” 32
33. Major Result of the Negativity Bias:
Threat Reactivity
! Two mistakes:
! Thinking there is a tiger in the bushes when there isn’t one.
! Thinking there is no tiger in the bushes when there is one.
! We evolved to make the first mistake a hundred
times to avoid making the second mistake even once.
! This evolutionary tendency is intensified by
temperament, personal history, culture, and politics.
! Threat reactivity affects individuals, couples, families,
organizations, nations, and the world as a whole. 33
34. Results of Threat Reactivity
(Personal, Organizational, National)
! Our initial appraisals are mistaken:
! Overestimating threats
! Underestimating opportunities
! Underestimating inner and outer resources
! We update these appraisals with information that
confirms them; we ignore, devalue, or alter
information that doesn’t.
! Thus we end up with views of ourselves, others, and
the world that are ignorant, selective, and distorted. 34
35. Costs of Threat Reactivity
(Personal, Organizational, National)
! Feeling threatened feels bad, and triggers stress consequences.
! We over-invest in threat protection.
! The boy who cried tiger: flooding with paper tigers makes it
harder to see the real ones.
! Acting while feeling threatened leads to over-reactions, makes
others feel threatened, and creates vicious cycles.
! The Approach system is inhibited, so we don’t pursue
opportunities, play small, or give up too soon.
! In the Attach system, we bond tighter to “us,” with more fear and
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anger toward “them.”
36. Besides its impacts at the personal and
organizational level, threat reactivity is a
major source of prejudice, oppression,
and war.
Reducing threat reactivity is a key way to
make this world a better place.
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38. Reverse Engineering the Brain
What is the nature of the brain when a person is:
! In peak states of productivity?
! Self-actualizing?
! Experiencing inner peace?
! Enlightened (or close to it)?
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39. Home Base of the Human Brain
When not threatened, ill, in pain, hungry, upset, or
chemically disturbed, most people settle into being:
! Calm (the Avoid system)
! Contented (the Approach system)
! Caring (the Attach system)
! Creative - synergy of all three systems
This is the brain in its natural, responsive mode. 39
41. To Survive, We Leave Home . . .
! Avoid: When we feel threatened or harmed
! Approach: When we can’t attain important goals
! Attach: When we feel isolated, disconnected,
unseen, unappreciated, unloved
This is the brain in its reactive mode of functioning
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- a kind of inner homelessness.
43. How to come home?
How to recover the natural, responsive mode
of the brain?
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44. “Know the Mind, Shape the Mind,
Free the Mind”
! Mindfulness, virtue, and wisdom are identified in
Buddhism, other contemplative traditions, and
Western psychology as central pillars of practice.
! These map to central functions of the nervous
system: receiving/learning, regulating, and
prioritizing. And map to the three phases of
psychological healing and personal growth:
! Be mindful of, release, replace.
! Let be, let go, let in.
! Mindfulness is vital, but not enough by itself. 44
45. General Factors for Responsive Mode
! Self-compassion
! Getting on your own side
! Mindful self-awareness
! Seeing the world clearly (Google could help here)
! Taking life less personally
! Taking in the good
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46. How to Take in the Good
1. Look for positive facts, and let them become positive
experiences.
2. Savor the positive experience:
! Sustain it for 10-20-30 seconds.
! Feel it in your body and emotions.
! Intensify it.
3. Sense and intend that the positive experience is
soaking into your brain and body - registering deeply
in emotional memory. 46
47. Benefits of Positive Emotions
! The benefits of positive emotions are a proxy for
many of the benefits of Taking in the Good.
! Emotions organize the brain as a whole, so positive
ones have far-reaching benefits
! These include:
! Stronger immune system; less stress-reactive cardiovascular
! Lift mood; increase optimism, resilience
! Counteract trauma
! Promote exploratory, “approach” behaviors
! Create positive cycles
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48. The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life.
I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy;
I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Bertrand Russell
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49. Factors for Each Motivational System
Approach system
! Be glad.
! Appreciate your resources.
! Give over to your best purposes.
Affiliate system
! Sense the suffering in others.
! Be kind.
! Act with unilateral virtue.
Avoid system
! Cool the fires.
! Recognize paper tigers.
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! Tolerate risking the dreaded experience.
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See www.RickHanson.net for other great books.
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! Johnson, S. 2005. Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of
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! Siegel, D. 2007. The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation
of Well-Being. W. W. Norton & Co.
! Thompson, E. 2007. Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of
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