How Can We Change Our Brains for the Better? Rick Hanson

The bottom line, in terms of how we feel - are we happy, are we sad, are we effective, are we lost in stress - how we ARE is fundamentally the result of what's happening in the three pounds of tofu between your ears. What's amazing to appreciate is that you can actually deliberately stimulate parts of your brain that do good things, thereby strengthening them. As in the famous saying: "Neurons that fire together, wire together."