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Scope - medical blog - Stanford University School of Medicine. Want to Boost Your Joy? Science Says “Share it!” - Fulfillment DailyFulfillment Daily. The Challenge: Good things happen to us daily, but we let small things get us down.The Science: A well-kept secret to increasing our joy lies in the simple act of sharing it! The Solution: Learn how to share your bliss to give it a boost! Positive experiences happen to us everyday yet most of us don’t know how to capitalize on them. Have you ever noticed that it could be a great day (you had 8 hours of sleep, it’s sunny, you feel great, had a great conversation with a friend etc…) but that it takes just one harsh word from someone or one bad email or text to ruin the day? Research by Shelley Gable and Jonathan Haidt shows that we actually have three times more positive experiences than negative. So what keeps us from fully capitalizing on all the good in our lives, making us a slave to the bad?

Researchers have identified two main tendencies that keep us from experiencing, extending, and expanding our joy: the negativity bias and habituation. Practice gratitude. Signing you up! Meditation. The Wellspring Institute For Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom | Wisebrain.org.

Epigenetics

MISC. Rewiring the Brain. VIDEOS. Dr. David Perlmutter MD. 5 Keys to Eating for Better Brain Health | David Perlmutter M.D. Although many people may see the value in the grain- and gluten-free diet proposed by Grain Brain, getting them to take the final step, to actually make a nutritional change in their life, can often prove difficult. That’s understandable, because the first few days and weeks of making any lifestyle change are challenging. In this case, those who have trouble cite an inability to find gluten-free recipes, uncertainty over conflicting gluten-free food lists, reliance on dining out, or any other of a multitude of issues. So, I decided to write this blog post.

Eating to prevent brain disease and Alzheimer’s is, of course, my goal for all of us, but the below tips expand well beyond my objectives and speak to overall ways we can improve our diet. Online Therapy |

Workplace Mindfulness

Meditation Matters – A mindfulness in the workplace tip | Tasting Mindfulness. Managing your energy throughout the day will determine if you feel good, get your work done, and have enough get-up-and-go left over to have fun with your family and friends after work. Believe it or not, your energy level is one of the only things you have control over. Some behaviors decrease your energy (like eating too much sugar or sitting in front of a computer for too many hours without a break) and some behaviors increase your energy (like taking time for a healthy lunch and positive self-talk). When we have energy, we will feel a lot of vitality. “Vitality” has been defined as having significant energetic resources and feeling enthusiastic and alive. Most people I talk to say that their workday is too busy and they have too much to do—a set up for being burned out and fatigued. That’s why it’s more important than ever to find ways to replenish your energy on a regular basis. However, not all breaks are the same.

And, meditation matters.

Rick Hanson

Greater Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life. Conversations with Experts. Fambly. Mindful. Universe.com. Physicists Find a Link between Wormholes and Spooky Action at a Distance. Wormholes and entanglement—two of science fiction's favorite concepts from modern physics—may in reality be two sides of the same coin, physicists say. The findings may offer a way to solve puzzling mysteries about black holes and perhaps help reconcile theories of gravity and quantum physics, which has been the dream of physicists since the mid–20th century. Wormholes are hypothetical shortcuts through spacetime, also known as Einstein–Rosen bridges, after Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen, who predicted them in 1935. Entanglement is another way of connecting two distant objects: When two particles are entangled, they retain a connection even when separated over great distances, so that actions performed on one affect the other.

Entanglement has been demonstrated in quantum physics experiments with particles, but wormholes, which arise from general relativity, are purely theoretical. The two phenomena were long thought to be unrelated. TED Talks. Mindfulness. The Ancient Brain and Modern Mindfulness | The Challenges and Opportunities that Exist in our Minds and Bodies. Book Summary - How To Wake Up. When we’re fully present for our life as it is, whether it’s pleasant or unpleasant at the moment, we have the potential to awaken to a peace and well-being that aren't dependent on whether a particular experience is joyful or sorrowful. Embracing our life in this way is the promise of peace left to us by the Buddha. Like How to Be Sick, How to Wake Up is a practical book—full of exercises and practices, all illustrated with easy-to-relate to personal stories from my experience as a Buddhist practitioner of over twenty years.

Because the book focuses on integrating the Buddha’s teachings into everyday life, it is intended for both experienced practitioners and those with no background in Buddhism. The Buddha’s teachings are not passive. They challenge us to be fully present and actively involved in our moment-to-moment experience. Neurocomic. MoodTurn.com - Relax your mind. Enjoy ambient music to lift your mood. // Rain. Creswell research. David Creswell, assistant professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, continues to do extensive research on how mindfulness can affect our health and our lives for the better. On anxiety: A 2013 study published in Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience found that mindful attention reduces self-reported cravings in smokers, as well as reduced neural activity in the craving-related region of the brain. On smoking cessation: A study in NeuroImage in 2013 concluded that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy may be an effective treatment for reducing anxiety and mood symptoms in patients with generalized anxiety disorder.

On loneliness: In 2012, a study published in Brain, Behavior and Immunity found that an eight-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program helps decrease loneliness in older adults. On behavior regulation: More mindfulness studies by David Creswell Creswell, J.D., Pacilio, L.E., Lindsay, E.K., & Brown, K.W. Self-compassion - A Healthier Way of Relating to Yourself. MoodTurn.com - Relax your mind. Enjoy ambient music to lift your mood. // Rain.