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EVEN THAN PEOPLE TAKING POWERFUL ANTI-DEPRESSANT MEDICATIONS. THERE ARE SPECIFIC MEDITATION PRACTICES THAT HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR MORE THAN , YEARS WHICH ARE EXPLICITLY DESIGNED TO CULTIVATE QUALITIES LIKE COMPION AND LOVING KINDNESS. THE PERSON WE’VE TESTED THE MOST IN OUR LAB IS A PERSON BY THE NAME OF MATTHIEU RICARD. HE HAS BEEN A TIBETAN BUDDHIST MONK FOR MORE THAN YEARS. HE ALSO HOLDS A PhD IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. AND, UM, WE HAVE LOOKED INTENSIVELY AT MATTHIEU’S BRAIN, BOTH AT REST AS WELL AS WHEN HE IS INTENTIONALLY GENERATING THESE STATES OF COMPION. SO THERE’S NO OBVIOUS CHANGE IN EXTERNAL BEHAVIOR, YOU KNOW. HE’S JUST SITTING THERE. AND THEN WE GIVE HIM THE INSTRUCTION TO BEGIN THE COMPION MEDITATION, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, IT’S LIKE PARTS OF THE BRAIN ARE ON FIRE. THESE ARE AREAS OF THE BRAIN WHICH ARE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR UNDERSTANDING HAPPINESS AND WELL-BEING. AND, SO, WE ARE, FOR EXAMPLE, CURRENTLY DOING STUDIES WHERE WE ARE HAVING PEOPLE WHO’VE NEVER MEDITATED BEFORE AND WE’RE HAVING THEM DO VERY SIMPLE EXERCISES. TWO WEEKS OF TRAINING IN THIS SIMPLE COMPION PRACTICE DOES CHANGE THE BRAIN IN WAYS WHICH ARE SIMILAR TO, ALTHOUGH NOT NEARLY AS WELL-DEFINED, AS WHAT WE SEE IN VERY LONG-TERM MEDITATION PRACTITIONERS. THERE IS SOME EVIDENCE TO INDICATE THAT WE ACTUALLY CHANGE THE GROWTH STRUCTURE OF THE BRAIN, LITERALLY THE SIZE OF PARTICULAR CORTICAL AREAS IN THE BRAIN CHANGE IN THEIR THICKNESS. WE, THROUGH INTENTION, CAN CHANGE OUR BRAIN. WE ASK PEOPLE TO COUNT THEIR BLESSINGS ON A REGULAR BASIS. SAY, EVERY SUNDAY NIGHT, YOU SIT DOWN AND YOU WRITE DOWN FIVE THINGS FOR WHICH YOU’RE GRATEFUL AND TRY TO CONTEMPLATE THAT. AND WE FOUND THAT THE STUDENTS WHO COUNTED THEIR BLESSINGS ONCE A WEEK, EVERY SUNDAY NIGHT, BECAME HAPPIER. A COUPLE STUDIES WE DID, WE ASKED PEOPLE TO COMMIT ACTS OF KINDNESS ON A REGULAR BASIS. YOU KNOW, THEY’RE GOING OUT AND THEY’RE PUTTING CHANGE IN PARKING METERS AND THEY’RE HELPING THEIR FRIEND WITH HOMEWORK OR WAS VISITING SOMEONE IN THE NURSING HOME OR, YOU KNOW, REALLY DOING REAL CONCRETE BEHAVIORS. AND IT SEEMS TO ME, FROM OUR EXPERIENCE, THAT THE ACTS OF KINDNESS SO FAR
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