Sigal Barsade, Wharton School of Business Emotional Contagion - organizational influence

When all is said and done. We study how our Mind / Brain / Body works, interacts and creates urges and actions. It is always good to really WIDEN out - get some clear perspective.

This is it. (minute 4:50) - Brandon has stuck with me. I took his story and his words -' better there than here, the warmth, the love' around the country, utilizing it as example in seminars of how we exit our lives, all of us addicts, on the continuum between Netflix and Narcotics - Life will be Painful I teach about developing the competency to stay here, with the pain, to turn it into a resilient possibility.

Richie Davidson - Affective Neuroscientist, primary lead researcher in the field of contemplative practices - showed this to us in one of his talks at an annual meeting - this is our Brain! a Multi-universe, with billions of cells and connections - we shape it everyday by what we repeatedly pay attention to!

A wandering mind is an unhappy mind leads to default mode network in brain that tends to be self involved Thank you Amishi! Brilliant researcher. also tends to our cravings and avoidance urges interestingly curiosity and loving kindness have been shown to get us out of that 'ditch' of the default mode network

Laughter. Primary element in Designing Wellness.

work with mind to inform body, understand sleep as a necessary part of a healthy system - lack and disrupted sleep leads to metabolic syndrome and loss of memory consolidation, emotion regulation, motivation, mood, basic well-being - let it be an amazing event you plan and prepare for every night!

Daniel Goleman August 3, 2007 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA.

Richie Davidson primary top researcher in field of contemplative neuroscience tasked by the Dalai Lama to study human propensity for positive emotion and altruistic actions - from his studies determines that well being is a skill which can be trained relative to the neurobiology of attention and neuroplasticity

module 2 post class 2 of Beyond Calm Class: Learn take away science of how body awareness mediates positive change in anxiety, depression, cravings.... Practical Applications - body scan practice - at home 'living inquiries' to train this primary skill of sensing

How we Learn a New Skill