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" You can activate the PNS in many ways, including relaxation, big exhalations, touching the lips, mindfulness of the body, imagery, balancing your heartbeat, and meditation. "
― Rick Hanson , Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
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" Everything changes. That’s the universal nature of outer reality and inner experience. Therefore, there’s no end to disturbed equilibria as long as you live. But to help you survive, your brain keeps trying to stop the river, struggling to hold dynamic systems in place, to find fixed patterns in this variable world, and to construct permanent plans for changing conditions. Consequently, your brain is forever chasing after the moment that has just passed, trying to understand and control it. "
― Rick Hanson , Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
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" A Process of Linking Here is an extended experiential process that you can use to address painful or harmful thoughts, sensations, emotions, or desires: what I am calling the negative material. Going into this process, know what the positive material is—the beneficial experiences, the inner strength(s), the vitamin C—that you’d like to associate with the negative material. Remember to drop the negative if it becomes too big or overwhelming, stay on your own side, and adapt this practice to your needs. It will probably take at least a few minutes, and you can spend as much time with it as you like. "
― Rick Hanson , Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness
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" In the mind, there is a sense of fear, frustration, and hurt—umbrella terms related to our needs for safety, satisfaction, and connection. This is stress, distress, and dysfunction. "
― Rick Hanson , Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness