How to Gladden the Mind With Kindness

The first step in gladdening the mind is to have an experience ikthat. We often will have a lovely experience like we'll feel the warmth of that spring like air and go, wow,. But we don't pause and let it sink in. This process has been described byd my friend rick hanson, who's a psychologist, and he does it beautifully as installation. You have to install positive states, give them that stickiness. So there are possibilities throughout all our lives, of moments where we can gladden the mind and develop the trad of joy but we tend to miss them.