Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence

good way to answer this question is in terms of your brain’s three operating systems. If you feel worried, tense, pushed on, or helpless, that triggers the avoiding harms system, so you’d be particularly helped by “resource experiences” related to this system, such as protection, safety, relaxation, strength, and agency. Sadness, disappointment, fr

The Four Steps of Taking In the Good Technically, taking in the good is the deliberate internalization of positive experiences in implicit memory. It involves four simple steps: 1. Have a positive experience. 2. Enrich it. 3. Absorb it. 4. Link positive and negative material.

Feeling good about yourself doesn’t make you conceited; as your sense of worth grows, there’s actually less need to impress others.