Travel back, in your mind’s eye, to a time when you felt a healthy exhaustion after hiking, biking, playing sports.., and let you re-live that moment as vividly as you can.Then, remember, re-experience, a loving exchange that really touched you. Pause. See your partner. See the moment. Smell it. Hear what happened around you.Next, visualize the most caring gesture you have ever received, as full of details as possible. Who gave you that gift of caring. How you felt.Now, travel to the most magnificent place you have seen. Enjoy the views. Pause. Listen. Smile. Appreciate.Congratulations. You have trained your brain. As Newsweek’s Sharon Begley explained recently:”But now neuroscientists have documented how “mere” thoughts can also sculpt the brain. Just thinking about playing a piano piece, over and over, can expand the region of motor cortex that controls those fingers; just thinking about depressive thoughts in new ways can dial down activity in one part of the brain that underlies depression and increase it in another, leading to clinical improvement.”We have talked about the value of meditation before. Only a few days ago, in predicting brain health trends for the next 5 years, I wrote that:”Noncomputer-based programs will also prove to […]

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