I have Altered Traits. One book I promised myself to read. 

Because its by a Dr. Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at University of Wisconsin Madison

“Richard Davidson is popularizing the idea that based on what is known about the plasticity of the brain, neuroplasticity, one can learn happiness and compassion as skills just as one learns to play a musical instrument or train in golf or tennis.[7] Happiness, like any skill, requires practice and time but because one knows that the brain is built to change in response to mental training, it is possible to train a mind to be happy.[“

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8 Books for Anyone Curious About Meditation

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I have Altered Traits. One book I promised myself to read.   Because its by a Dr. Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at University of Wisconsin Madison  “Richard Davidson is popularizing the idea that based on what is known about the plasticity of the brain, neuroplasticity, one can learn happiness and compassion as skills just as one learns to play a musical instrument or train in golf or tennis.[7] Happiness, like any skill, requires practice and time but because one knows that the brain is built to change in response to mental training, it is possible to train a mind to be happy.[“  #The Book Club 📚  8 Books for Anyone Curious About Meditation Distractions are everywhere. We’re so often summoned by smartphone notifications, emails and other obligations that sitting still can seem like a fantasy. But research shows that meditating regularly, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/22/well/mind/mindfulness-meditation-beginners-books.html

Nikolas Kong

When I first began meditating, I could only do TM. With my eyes open.

Just start. Do TM. There’s only two steps

I need to learn this.  Are there any resources other than books?

All meaningful returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.

🤓 let’s geek out 🤓

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no "brief candle" for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

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Illegitimi non carborundum

Nikolas Kong

A group of likeminded people in MEDITATION (mindfulness) are talking about this.