Meditations for Happiness

Happiness is far more than a positive feeling that comes and goes. Science is now proving that happiness is a skill that you can develop. Course objectives: List some enduring benefits of happiness. Describe the negativity bias of the brain. Summarize how our brains can make us happy and also create suffering. Practice guided exercises for tapping your innate capacity to nurture and encourage yourself. Utilize meditation to shape your brain over time to experience more joy and be more at ease in everyday life. Apply techniques that re-wire the neural pathways in the brain to experience deeper and more lasting happiness. Bridging neuropsychology with the great contemplative traditions, Meditations for Happiness brings you a series of practices that allow you to literally rewire the neural pathways in your brain to experience deeper and more lasting contentment. On part one, Dr. Hanson discusses the nature of happiness, its role in our evolution, how our brains both make us happy a