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Finding Happiness: Cajole Your Brain to Lean to the Left By Daniel Goleman
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All too many years ago, while I was still a psychology graduate student, I ran an experiment to assess how well meditation might work as an antidote to stress. My professors were skeptical, my measures were weak, and my subjects were mainly college sophomores. Not surprisingly, my results were inconclusive.
The data has emerged as one of many experimental fruits of an unlikely research collaboration: the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan religious and political leader in exile, and some of top psychologists and neuroscientists from the United States. The scientists met with the Dalai Lama for five days in Dharamsala, India, in March 2000, to discuss how people might better control their destructive emotions.
One of my personal heroes in this rapprochement between modern science and ancient wisdom is Dr. Richard Davidson, director of the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Davidson, in recent research using functional M.R.I. and advanced EEG analysis, has identified an index for the brain's set point for moods.
But today I feel vindicated.
To be sure, over the years there have been scores of studies that have looked at meditation, some suggesting its powers to alleviate the adverse effects of stress. But only last month did what I see as a definitive study confirm my once-shaky hypothesis, by revealing the brain mechanism that may account for meditation's singular ability to soothe.
The Neuroscience of Happiness An Interview with Rick Hanson, Ph.D. For years, research has shown that, over time, our experiences literally reshape our brains and can change our nervous systems, for better or worse. Now, neuroscientists and psychologists like Hanson are zeroing in on how we can take advantage of this “plasticity” of the brain to cultivate and sustain positive emotions.
In this interview best-selling author Rick Hanson explains how we can rewire our brains for lasting happiness.
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Great News for Your Body: The Top 10 Health Tips of 2010 By Erin Biba - O, The Oprah Magazine Every so often, medical researchers hit upon a scientific truth that makes us smile. The truth behind good luck charms, wine-drinking. And...putting your feet up on your desk? This article's a fun one!
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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
BOOK: According to Dweck there are two types of "mindsets": fixed and growth. Which mindset do you possess, and how is it affecting your success and happiness?
Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge
BOOK: "Alan Wallace has a breathtaking command of knowledge rooted in Buddhism, but embracing the physical and cognitive sciences and most importantly informed by meditation practice." -Richard J. Davidson
Finding Happiness: Cajole Your Brain to Lean to the Left 
The Neuroscience of Happiness 
Great News for Your Body: The Top 10 Health Tips of 2010 
