Sublime

“If you want to make people’s mental lives better, work directly with mental targets, rather than molecular ones—drugs are a shotgun approach, since nature uses the same molecules for many different purposes.”

Until recent years, the common belief among scientists was that every person has a mood set point that doesn’t change much over a life span. That explains why people who win the lottery or become paraplegic in an accident will (after some transitional time in elation or depression) return to their mood set point. There is also a relationship betwee

the idea that developing the reflective skills of mindsight activates the very circuits that create resilience and well-being and that underlie empathy and compassion as well.

“It takes a panoramic attention to appreciate system-level interactions,” says Richard Davidson. “You need to be attentionally flexible, so you can expand and contract your focus, like a zoom lens, to see elements big and small.” Why not teach children these basic skills in reading systems?

minds and limber

Brain Waves Tell the Story

Learning to label emotions with a more nuanced vocabulary can be absolutely transformative. People who can identify the full spectrum of emotion – who realize how, for

Quanto melhor for o seu foco, mais forte é a sua captura neural.