Neuroscience shows that when we sustain the felt experience of a positive emotion for about three to six breaths, neural pathways begin to strengthen in that direction.
Over time, this process makes the nervous system more likely to lean toward that feeling.
Practicing in this way builds practical capacities for resilience, courage, compassion, balance, wisdom, and insight.
"All experience is led by mind and heart, preceded by mind and heart, shaped by mind and heart, so that all that we are arises, with our thoughts and feelings, and with our thoughts and feelings, we make the world."
