Choose to be yourself part 2

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Follow some mindfulness meditation in order to create the needed “space” between stimulus and reaction, in which to actually choose your response: • Bodyscan seated (my own video): • Mindfulness meditation by Jon Kabat-Zinn who invented MBSR (mindfulness based stress reduction). Participants of MBSR haven been the subjects of many of the quoted studies about mindfulness changing the brain. And also about mindfulness changing the character. This link here seems open for sharing. If not, I apologize.

Literature Davidson/ Goleman; Altered Traits, the book where you find a survey of all important studies in neuroscience to determine if and how the mind – or mindfulness – can change the brain and even seemingly stable character traits. // D. Siegel; Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology. Dig deep: What do different sciences have to say about the mind and its relationship to the brain or to influencing social factors? What can neuroscience show? // J.K. Rowling; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets for the examples from the tale