Buddha’s Brain

Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were all born with a brain built essentially like anyone else’s. Then they used their minds to change their brains in ways that changed history.

With the new breakthroughs in neuroscience, combined with insights from thousands of years of contemplative practice, you, too, can shape your own brain for greater happiness, love, and wisdom.
Written with neurologist Richard Mendius, M.D., and with a Foreword by Daniel Siegel, M.D. and a Preface by Jack Kornfield, Ph.D., Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom joins modern science with ancient teachings to show you how to have greater emotional balance in turbulent times, as well as healthier relationships, more effective actions, and greater peace of mind.

Well-referenced and grounded in science, the book is full of practical tools and skills that you can use in daily life to rewire your brain over time. The brain is the bodily organ that most affects who you are and your experience of living – so learning how to take good care of it, and strengthen  and direct it in the ways that will help you the most, is a profound gift to yourself, and to everyone else whose life you touch.

You’ll learn how your brain creates worry or peacefulness, anger or caring, confusion or clarity, and suffering or its end – and how to:

Take in good experiences to feel happier and more confident – defeating the brain’s negativity bias, which is like Velcro for bad experiences and Teflon for positive ones

Train your brain to cool down stress, greed, and hatred – and come home to your natural core of calm and contentment

Energize the neural networks of compassion, empathy, and love – and clear out resentment, envy, and ill will

Improve concentration for daily life, mindfulness, and contemplative absorption

Feel more at one with the world and the universe, and less separate and vulnerable

Get the crucial nutrients your brain needs to maintain a good mood, relieve anxiety, sharpen memory, and improve concentration

 
If you can change your brain, you can change your life.

That’s the promise of Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom.

(And you can click any link on this page to order the book.)