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“Regardless of past choices, now is always the best time to start making better choices.” —Paul Mark Sutherland
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Now Do Your Part
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“The moment you asked for forgiveness, God forgave you. Now do your part and leave the guilt behind.” —Joel Osteen
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For November Mornings
Be a Happy Dreamer
Here is one of Karen Salmansohn’s ingenious posters (one of my favs).
Dream big, think happy thoughts, and enjoy!
graphic credit: Notsalmon
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Free Money
A million at least …maybe two …dollars that is! Loyalty has its rewards …at least if you work with Howard Cooper in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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video credit: Fox News.
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Pint Size Olympic Spirit …with Love
Young siblings often disagree, argue, even fight …but not in this family, the Long family. This Long family is very long on love.
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story and video credit: ABC news
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What Goes Around Comes Around
What a wonderful lesson learned and then practiced.
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story and video credit: CBS news
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Harnessing Compassion
Stanford Scientists Examine Meditation and Compassion in The Brain
by Lia Steakley on July 9th, 2012
We’ve written previously about Stanford researchers’ ongoing efforts to study the science of compassion and altruism. A San Francisco Chronicle story from yesterday takes a closer look at one such project.
In the study, neuroeconomist Brian Knutson, PhD, and colleagues use magnetic resonance imaging to compare the minds of expert meditators and novices to better define what compassion looks like in the brain. Meredith May writes:
The “monk study” at Stanford is part of an emerging field of meditation science that has taken off in the last decade with advancements in brain image technology, and popular interest.
“There are many neuroscientists out there looking at mindfulness, but not a lot who are studying compassion,” Knutson said. “The Buddhist view of the world can provide some potentially interesting information about the subcortical reward circuits involved in motivation.”
By looking at expert meditators, neuroscientists hope to get a better picture of what compassion looks like in the brain. Does a monk’s brain behave differently than another person’s brain when the two are both extending compassion? Is selflessness innate, or can it be learned?
Looking to the future, neuroscientists wonder whether compassion can be neurologically isolated, if one day it could be harnessed to help people overcome depression, to settle children with hyperactivity, or even to rewire a psychopath.
“Right now we’re trying to first develop the measurement of compassion, so then one day we can develop the science around it,” Knutson said.
The larger and more in-depth San Francisco Chronicle article can be found here.
Previously from SCOPE:
- How being compassionate can influence your health
- Neurotheology: Investigating the relationship between the brain and spirituality
- Dalai Lama and Stanford researchers explore science of compassion and altruism
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What A Guy …Really!
I’ve heard this story before.
I’ve even seen the movie.
But, that doesn’t make Dr. Russel Dohner’s story any less remarkable. What a distinguished and beautiful life this near 90-year-old small town doctor has lived …so far.
I do believe the good doctor may actually have the letters GYA stitched to the inside of his heart.
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Congratulations Dr. Russell Dohner, for an uncommon and compassionately lived life.
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GYA today 