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How to be Happier at Work (with Dan Harris)

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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Meditation and Love and Kindness Practices Are Related

In buddhism, there are what are known as the four brahma viharas. These are hard to reach states that you can train meditation, love and kindness practice. Love is not an unalterable factory setting. It is a trainable skill. And with these kind of trainable skills, you canna take out of your emotional ether, the bad stuff. The power of muditaas it takes, it's not just that you feel good for some else is success, is that it takes away this horrible burden, pain you don't sadness, anger or frustration. If you can get rid of that part of your emotional labor, that can be incredibly powerful. You'll

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