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Change your Mind Change your Brain: The Inner Conditions...

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Google Tech Talks
March 15, 2007

ABSTRACT

If happiness is an inner state, influenced by external conditions but not dependent on them, how can we achieve it? Ricard will examine the inner and outer factors that increase or diminish our sense of well-being, dissect the underlying mechanisms of happiness, and lead us to a way of looking at the mind itself based on his book, Happiness: A Guide to Life's Most Important Skill and from the research in neuroscience on the effect of mind-training on the brain.

Speaker Bio: Matthieu Ricard, a gifted scientist turned Buddhist monk, is a best selling author, translator, and photographer. He has lived and studied in the Himalayas for the last 35 years...
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May 02, 2010 · 38 points, 3 comments · submitted by ulvund
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⬐ MaysonL
I wonder what kind of brain changes occur in programmers who spend hours/day in flow states? Does this have anywhere near the effect of mindful meditation?
⬐ Goladus
If you found this interesting check out the book "Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama"

http://www.amazon.com/Destructive-Emotions-Scientific-Dialog...

They talk about this same experiment.

⬐ binarymax
Thanks for the link! I will need to pick that up. I supremely enjoyed the dialogues in another of his books "The Quantum and the Lotus" and this looks very interesting indeed.
Jan 31, 2010 · 1 points, 0 comments · submitted by ulvund
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