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Change your Mind; Change your Brain
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The Inner Conditions:
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Program Description
If happiness is an inner state, influenced by external conditions but not dependent on them, how can we achieve it? Matthieu Ricard presents factors that generally may increase or decrease well-being, happiness, authenticity, compassion, peace, and joy.
Happiness and joy may stimulate compassion and compassion may stimulate happiness and joy. This is ideal. This may then be noticed to be increasing positive energy, empathy, pro-social behavior, and the change within may serve as the kernel of an evolving moral-ethical framework.
Matthieu Ricard is a scientist turned Buddhist monk and a best selling author, translator, and photographer. He has lived and studied in the Himalayas for more than 35 years.
This recording is from Google Tech Talks in March of 2007
60 minutes Youtube watch?v=L_30JzRGDHI
A wellness approach in learning: act as though we don’t yet know anything more important — eliminate the inner ego voice from learning.
I pray to be released from any responsibility for making judgments and to learn as though this is all new to me. Later, I’ll review the important lesson again. Always when material is important in my life, I review the material many times.
Starting off into a new day, there is something to learn and something to share — what that is comes to me with my morning meditation — I don’t really even think about it until it comes — I remind myself, “This is my wonderful journey of self discovery. Love envelopes me and the gentle waves of peaceful waters and the light shine from my mind into the world around me.” As I face myself in honesty, open to guiding spirit, I turn my life over to God and I ask Him to allow me to do whatever I may to do His will — Thy Will, not mine be done.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama says “in today’s secular world, religion alone is no longer adequate as a basis for ethics… any religion-based answer to the problem of our neglect of inner values can never be universal, and so will be inadequate.” My religion practice is rooted in utmost fondness and enthusiasm in me. I love Jesus and being Christian. I also love all others as best I am able and this is certainly a growing condition in me, prompted by my love of Jesus’s words that make clear that we are to love God with all of our being and also love others as we would be loved. I realize that my world around me is a secular world where my religion is separate from societal norms and therefore that I must involve myself with others in ways that make me attractive; not by promoting my religion. I am to be a channel for love.
I hope that this lesson is helpful for you in your life of spiritual enlightenment — awakening the skill to foster well-being and for freedom, mastery of living in moments of serenity, inner peacefulness, joyfulness, and of course for sharing happiness.
Thanks for learning with me.
Eric
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I remembered now in reference “Change your Brain” is an old English Novel talks about slavery. I find your post unique!!
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Eric thank you for bringing the lessons too.. I have saved to watch later.. I am jumping around hypo space lol today, as I worked Saturday, been in the allotment this morning, Life is very full at the moment., But one thing we must all make time for is LOVE and Giving to another be it in service or in kindness or compassion.. .. I know from experience.. that the more we open up to love. the more full of love we become.. and in filling ourselves up with this amazing Light.. we do alter our brain, we heal from within and we effectively become happier..
Blessings Eric..
Sue xox
We are so lucky to live in the age we do. It’s sad because humans are destroying their world and ultimately, the greedy humans will extinct our race but on the glass half full look, we live in such an amazing time that we can find this information on the internet. To broaden our experiences. That is why I was so excited to find the Koren helmet (aka God helmet). For me, I’m a visual person and to be able to have spiritual experiences is amazing because they have declined to the point of nothing. Even though I don’t agree with the religion I was brought up in, I miss the connection that I felt, even though those virtues are embedded in me. Because of my disease and pain, I’m unable to feel connection again without anger and resentment. I don’t know why, but some people are able to live lives without pain, agony, or poverty, and some of us get to be lucky to experience all those things. So, I’ve done the research and even if the Koren helmet is snake oil, I say, bring it on because there have been so many positive experiences from this. Besides the experiments that I want to do, I also believe that having this many positive experiences (proven that road rage people decrease their rage with use of helmet) might be able to trick my brain into changing the pain patterns and maybe even have a face to face with God. =)
*the hope is that I will release my medical records with the video recordings of my experiments and perhaps publish those findings in a book based on opinion