Buddha's brain
by Rick Hanson · first published 2009
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…lens on many of the same themes as self-help books (resilience, confidence, acceptance, etc), and they contain concrete exercises and summaries. They might appeal to people who are allergic to woo: - Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, Wisdom - Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-being
on “How to Read Self-Help” ↗There's a book called Buddha's Brain that documents several studies of people meditating while being scanned by an fMRI machine. It's quite fascinating. Regular meditation alters connections in the brain, similar to how working out a muscle…
on “Buddhist monk's brain produces highest reported level of gamma waves” ↗This is very interesting to me. I have signed up for the free 10-day Vipassana course (dhamma.org). Some of you may find this blog entry I wrote to be interesting. It is a review of Buddha's Brain: the practical neuroscience of happiness, love & wisdom. http://www.zacharyburt.com/2010/05/the-neuroscience-of-buddh... I am currently reading The Myth of Freedom by Trungpa. He's definitely assaulted…
on “Meditation: Why Bother?” ↗I am a self-help junky, and I am trying to get started with meditation currently. Here's a bunch of meditations I found, from the author of "Buddha's Brain": https://sites.google.com/site/psychospiritualtools/ His web site: http://www.wisebrain.org/
on “Tuning out: How brains benefit from meditation” ↗