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From Rick Hanson:
1. Experience what you’d like to develop.
2. Turn that experience into lasting change in your brain.
I call the first stage activation and the second stage installation.
This is positive neuroplasticity: turning passing states into lasting traits. The second stage is absolutely necessary.
Experiencing does not equal learning.
Without a change in neural structure or function, there is no enduring mental change for the better.
Unfortunately, we typically move on so quickly from one experience to another that the current thought of feeling has little chance to leave a lasting trace.
In working with others, we might think that something good will somehow rub off on the people we are trying to help.
It may for some, though not very efficiently,and for many there is little to no lasting gain.
As a result, most beneficial experiences pass through the brain like water through a sieve, leaving no value behind.
You have a good conversation with a friend or feel calmer in meditation– and then an hour later it’s like it never happened.
If awakening is like a mountain, in some moments you may find yourself far up the slopes– but can you stay there, on firm footing?
Or do you keep slipping back down again?
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