How to Train Your Mind and Your Heart
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Claims that short compassion training shifts brain and behavior: one-week loving‑kindness exercises move people from an empathy/pain network to an affiliative reward network, increase prosocial choices in economic games and produce pain‑analgesia; nine‑month ReSource Project enrolls 200 people with daily practice, weekly classes and retreats and reports <6% dropout; a freely downloadable 900-page eBook packages exercises, multimedia and protocols. Results use fMRI, cortisol measures, economic games and self‑report and report measurable stress reduction and increased cooperative behavior.
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