Certain neurological, biological, and psychological principles underlie experience. Misunderstanding them can inhibit hope and diminish meaning.

Whatever we focus on, good or bad, becomes more important than what we don't focus on.

Emotional habits lead to behavioral habits. The difference between habitual and intentional behavior is hundreds of millions of multi-firing neurons.

The human brain stores numerous assumptions about its environment based on experience, which it uses to make behavioral choices. If there is no apparent environmental exception to the string of assumptions underlying a given behavioral impulse, it’s enacted........

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