Rewire Your Brain With Sympathetic Joy

Our brains are wired to be Teflon for the good and Velcro for the bad, says neuroscientist Rick Hanson, which leads us into sinkholes of depression and anxiety. But you can rewire that programming by cultivating sympathetic joy for others and savoring your own happy moments. This meditation, inspired by THE ATTENTION REVOLUTION by Alan Wallace, trains your mind to be limber to change and your heart to be open to joy.

Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke. Photo by Noah Silliman

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Thank you for your inspiring and comforting words and guidance-a reminder of the joys of life that surround us and belong to us. May your joy deepen, too 💕

So good and important! I need to come back to this!

Thank you for sharing this practice, I look forward to developing the skill to cultivate and recognize more opportunity to share the joy of life!

I love this concept. It’s so much easier to focus on the goodness of people and ideas than to concentrate on removing stress from your body. I’ve done this meditation a few times and I feel lighter, brighter and more full of happy energy each time. As a natural consequence my stress goes down. I will be doing this every day. Thank you so much.

Lovely practice to require the mind for positivity 🙏