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Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body by Richard J. Davidson, Daniel Goleman

For the most part, popular psychology isn’t exactly positive on your ability to really change your core personality, your default way of being. Sure, it accepts that you can learn new coping skills and occasionally better ways of responding emotionally, but for the most part, the assumption is that your core personality is set. This runs in stark contrast to the research about neural plasticity. Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body explains – with science – how our perception of things that are unchangeable may be changeable after all.

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