In an inviting and reassuring tone, she describes how we developed our current relationship wiring and how to modify it
through mindfulness meditation. Focusing on nine high-voltage benefits, Lucas shows how a short daily meditation
practice can change the way you interact with everyone around you...especially those closest to you. The benefits
include things such as enhanced fear modulation, increased emotional resiliency, better response flexibility, greater
insight/self-knowledge, more attuned communication, and enhanced empathy.
Each chapter focuses on one of these benefits and includes an in-depth description of exactly what that benefit is and
how it will improve the reader's life. She looks at the science and research associated with mindfulness meditation in
relation to each benefit, and then provides readers with a specific meditation to help bring that benefit into their
relationships.
Imagine, instead of blowing up at an off-hand statement your partner makes, you are able to stop, breathe and respond
in a thoughtful manner. And as the author says, 'You don't have to become a monk, or a vegetarian, or spend hours
contemplating your navel'; you simply need to notice your mind's busyness and not get all tangled up in it. This simple
process truly can change your life.
‘Honest, warmhearted, and funny. Marsha Lucas explains neuroscience in plain English and gives us a wonderful introduction
to mindfulness meditation and its benefits.’
Sharon Salzberg, author of The Power of Meditation
Marsha Lucas, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and neuropsychologist, and has been practicing psychotherapy and
studying the brain-behavior relationship for 20 years. Prior to entering private practice, she was a neuropsychologist on
the faculty at the Emory University School of Medicine. She fell in love with interpersonal neurobiology in a conference
room full of 750 other people - finding herself getting some odd looks when she had tears of joy at the mention of the
anterior cingulate and the insula in the same sentence as 'greater empathy'. She appreciates the integration of
mindfulness, neuroscience and relationships as a perfect confluence of many of the previously unintegrated aspects of her life.
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