Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time
  • Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time
  • Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time
  • Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time
ISBN: 1608820319
EAN13: 9781608820313
Language: English
Release Date: Oct 1, 2011
Pages: 232
Dimensions: 0.5" H x 7.8" L x 5.1" W
Weight: 0.5 lbs.
Format: Paperback

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Book Overview

You've heard the expression, It's the little things that count. It's more than a simple platitude. Research has shown that integrating little daily practices into your life can actually change the way your brain works.

This guide offers simple things you can do routinely, mainly inside your mind, that will support and increase your sense of security and worth, resilience, effectiveness, well-being, insight, and inner peace. For example, they include: taking in the good, protecting your brain, feeling safer, relaxing anxiety about imperfection, not knowing, enjoying your hands, taking refuge, and filling the hole in your heart. At first glance, you may be tempted to underestimate the power of these seemingly simple practices. But they will gradually change your brain through what's called experience-dependent neuroplasticity.

Moment to moment, whatever you're aware of--sounds, sensations, thoughts, or your most heartfelt longings--is based on underlying neural activities. This book offers simple brain training practices you can do every day to protect against stress, lift your mood, and find greater emotional resilience.

Just one practice each day can help you to:

- Be good to yourself
- Enjoy life as it is
- Build on your strengths
- Be more effective at home and work
- Make peace with your emotions

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   The PERFECT SELF-HELP/PSYCHOLOGY BOOK
WOW! I love this book! This book features simple, straighforward practices you can use to upgrade your life, improve your outlook on life, and help you shift your thinking to positive things. This book helped me perfectly transfer theories I have collected from at least half a dozen other self-help books into practice. Each chapter is new, addresses a short, straight forward way to view the world, and includes practices you can use to implement what the author is talking about. Everything in this book is easy to put in, but some things are difficult to practice. I have put most of this book to good use and feel like I am going to reread the rest of it until I get it rusty pat. I'm a much better person for reading it and would highly recommend it to EVERYONE.
 
5
   Just One Thing that adds depth and growth to my (difficult) days! Simple yet richly fulfilling at the same time.
This is a companion piece to Hanson's book Buddha's Brain, but I have several friends who have borrowed this little book without the larger book, and we all enjoy the clarity that this step-by-step gentle, welcoming little book offers. It is a real delight in that it does not dumb any of the concepts, nor does it provide a superficial overview of them. When I take my copy out of my Chum's hands, I will enjoy this again with me to browse through as I kill time in medical practitioners'waiting rooms. I enjoy having a small, daily goal in my ongoing efforts to develop my own Buddha brain, and this is a handy way to step back from the pitfalls of modern life, take a deep breath, reflect on what is truly important to me, re-center and carry on. I love this little thing so much!
 
5
   Amazing book! It condenses a lot of what is ...
Book an awesome book! It combines a lot of what is contained in other books on neural plasticity, self-compassion, meditation, gratitude, etc. and forms one small thing to do a day in very few words. Makes it so easy to actually do something that would improve your life. Michal Kalderon is an expert in Rick Hanson.
 
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   Succinct.
I look for authors who capture the essence of their topic without droning. This is beautifully done by Hanson. This book is simple and insightful, hauntingly.
 
5
   Practical and profound
We all need these reminders and knowing how practice connects to the brain is somehow more understandable and less squishy.
 
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   A very basic guide to mindfulness.
Hanson is not a bad writer, but I believe he glosses in this book over many intuitive and self-help concepts. It says a lot, but doesn 't do much, which may work for some as a nice beginning to better mental habits. But if you're looking for deeper and more involved writing and practices, you may want to look elsewhere. There are however some gems such as focusing on moments of happiness, letting go and dealing with perfection disappointment ''. All interesting chapters that I believe can help some people, so there is no harm in it.
 
5
   Just One Practice... small pauses build to something greater
With 52 practices, you can open the book to a random page and read that 3 to 5 page chapter, then take a pause to actually do the practices suggested. Rick explains the concept and gives practical advice on how to practice it. I recommend this book to many of the too busy professionals I work with that are seeking to develop mindfulness and a more meaningful life in general. While there is a Buddhist flavor to some practices, you can be atheist, agnostic or a theist deeply steeped in your specific path and still find benefit from this well written book. Don 't just read it... make space for the practices.
 
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