The Emotional Aspect of Healing

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We're really good at making up explanations, but that doesn't mean those explanations are valid. And even sometimes when we think we're on the trail of why we are thinking or doing something, we often are just sort of picking out what's salient and then hitting a wrong target. So this is, there's a avalanche of sources in the back of the book about this study showed this and thisStudy showed this and there's evidence for this. It's like pulling back a curtain and seeing the machinery at work."

You have the power to wield neuroplasticity to your advantage.

Just as you can change your body at the atomic level by lifting weights, you can willfully alter your brain by...thinking in a certain way. In this episode we explore using your brain to change your brain at the level of neurons and synapses beyond what is possible through other methods like learning a new language or earning a degree in chemistry. With mindfulness meditation, the evidence seems to suggest that one can achieve a level of change that would be impossible otherwise. The more you attempt to focus, the better you get at focusing on command, and so a real change begins taking place - you slowly become able to think differently, to hold thoughts differently and to dismiss thoughts that before led to attention difficulties or what feels like unwanted thoughts or clutter - and that’s not magical or the result of shaking hands with a deity, it’s biological. Listen as author and meditation teacher Michael Taft explains the benefits of secular, scientific practice of modern mindfulness meditation

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