The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom
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چکیده
The aim of the book is to educate people to enhance the power of positive emotions in their lives. In this book the author explains how our brains have evolved towards keeping us safe from external threats. Our intrinsic negativity leads to suffering. The author indicates that by using meditation and by the ways of the Buddhism, we can cause the reactions in the brain which stimulate the nervous system to become more positive. And it is rightly said that if we act positively then positive things follow. Therefore, we can use the Buddhist’s philosophy to achieve scientific mental health benefits.
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