The Emotional Life Of Your Brain by Richard J. Davidson
How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live—and How You Can Change Them
A neuroscientist maps the brain circuits that shape six core emotional styles—Resilience, Outlook, Social Intuition, Self-Awareness, Sensitivity to Context, and Attention—showing how individual differences arise from activity and connectivity among regions like the prefrontal cortex, amygdala, insula, and hippocampus. Drawing on lab research and case stories, it argues these styles are measurable, malleable, and tied to well-being, and offers self-assessments and meditation- and behavior-based practices to recalibrate them, illustrating how changing habits can rewire the brain to enhance emotional balance, relationships, performance, and mental health.
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- 2012
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