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The Book Is A Dialogue Between The Dalai Lama And A Group Of Scientists About How We Can Better Handle Our Destructive Emotions And How To Overcome Them.

Emotions Are Contagious. We've All Known It Experientially. You Know After You Have A Really Fun Coffee With A Friend, You Feel Good. When You Have A Rude Clerk In A Store, You Walk Away Feeling Bad.

Brain Studies Of Mental Workouts In Which You Sustain A Single, Chosen Focus Show That The More You Detach From What's Distracting You And Refocus On What You Should Be Paying Attention To, The Stronger This Brain Circuitry Becomes.

The Emotional Brain Responds To An Event More Quickly Than The Thinking Brain.

The Task Of Worrying Is To Come Up With Positive Solutions For Life's Perils By Anticipating Dangers Before They Arise. If We Are Preoccupied By Worries, We Have That Must Less Attention To Expend On Figuring Out The Answers. Our Worries Become Self-fulfilling Prophecies, Propelling Us Toward The Very Disaster They Predict.