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Buddha's Brain
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The book has adequate referencing and based on science, the book provides enough practical knowledge and techniques that can be used to keep revitalizing our brain in day-to-day life. The brain is an important organ that most influence your personality and your existential experience. Therefore, getting knowledge to keep it healthy, making it strong and using it in the positive direction that benefit you maximum, is a precious treasure for yourself, and for all those people whom you interact in your life. Prominent scholars, psychologists and teachers such as, Jennifer Louden, Jerome Engel, Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg Walsh, Tara Brach, Richard Miller, Fred Luskin, Phillip Zelazo, James Baraz, Wes Nisker, Christina Feldman and many others, have admired Buddha's Brain. The book summarizes that how anxiety or inner strength, sorrow or love, annoyance and calmness, confusion or clarity, anguish or relief is created by your brain -- and how to:
Reflect on positive happenings of your life to be in high sprit and more confident -- overcoming the brain's negativity for bad experiences like Velcro but for positive ones like Teflon.
Instruct your brain to tackle with stress, greed, and hatred -- and remain in a state of harmony and happiness.
Strengthen the neural networks of kindness, empathy and love -- and...
You can change your life, if you are able to change your brain (Rick Hanson, 2016).
The book is well organized, not too technical, and at the end of each chapter, has a simple and easy "review" section. I read one chapter a day. I could certainly read more, but this would have spoilt the purpose of reading this great book. It successfully explains developing brain science surrounding motivation, contentment and (Eastern) wisdom. It is a combination of Western "why" and Eastern "practice." For that reason it is "Practical Neuroscience." The book provides scientific reasoning to explain the effectiveness of meditation. This is my prime interest besides other exercises that give the method of invigorating the useful neural networks (those which help you relax, make good decisions, feel loving and safe) like using imagery, having a deep breath, conscious relaxation etc. It is not only about doing exercises to relax, but is also the running commentary on the functions of the neural systems that are…
References
Hanson, R., & Siegel, D. J. (2009). Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom. New Harbinger Publications.
Litterski, N. (2011, July 11). Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom. Retrieved February 21, 2016, from Good Reads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6796675-buddha-s-brain
Rick Hanson. (2016). Buddha'S Brain. Retrieved February 21, 2016, from Rick Hanson: http://www.rickhanson.net/writings/books/buddhas-brain/
Roughgarden, C. (2009, November 30). Improving Our Lives from the Inside Out: A Review of Buddha's Brain. Retrieved February 21, 2016, from The Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley: http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/improving_our_lives_from_the_inside_out_a_review_of_buddhas_brain
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