How To Rewire Your Brain For Greater Happiness

How To Rewire Your Brain For Greater Happiness
A woman inspects an exhibit featuring neurobiological processes in the human brain shown in the so-called Neurons-Room of the exhibition 'Glueck - Welches Glueck' (literally: Happiness - Which Happiness) at the Deutsches Hygiene Museum in Dresden, eastern Germany, on March 5, 2008. The exhibition on happiness, luck and fortune runs from March 6 to November 2, 2008. AFP PHOTO DDP/NORBERT MILLAUER GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read NORBERT MILLAUER/AFP/Getty Images)
A woman inspects an exhibit featuring neurobiological processes in the human brain shown in the so-called Neurons-Room of the exhibition 'Glueck - Welches Glueck' (literally: Happiness - Which Happiness) at the Deutsches Hygiene Museum in Dresden, eastern Germany, on March 5, 2008. The exhibition on happiness, luck and fortune runs from March 6 to November 2, 2008. AFP PHOTO DDP/NORBERT MILLAUER GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read NORBERT MILLAUER/AFP/Getty Images)

Wouldn’t it be awesome if we could hack into our own brains and rewire them to be happier?

Science has shown we actually can thanks to a phenomenon called experience-dependent neuroplasticity. "It’s a fancy term to say the brain learns from our experiences," says Rick Hanson, neuropsychologist and author of the book Hardwiring Happiness. "As we understand better and better how this brain works, it gives us more power to change our mind for the better."

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