Dr. Richard Davidson

Exactly, totally agree.

So just to finish this insight, so practice that is easily accessible, that can really help with insight is if you're in a difficult situation, whatever it is, at work, in a relationship,

Imagine what a person who is different from you that you may know, or it could be some famous person who you know something about.

Imagine how they would view the situation from their perspective.

And just allow yourself to get a taste of how their view of the situation is different from your view of the situation.

That's it.

And that is really helpful in giving us some distance from our own beliefs and expectations and helps us recognize that when we see the world, we're actually not seeing the world, we're seeing how we construct our own construction of the world through our filters of beliefs and expectations.

And so it helps us become less fused, less identified.

which is really an important ingredient for well-being.

And finally, with purpose, you know, a simple practice is whatever you're doing, whether it's a pedestrian activity like washing the dishes or doing your laundry, just simply reflect on how this is beneficial not just to yourself, but to others in your ecosystem.

That's it.

Simple.

Yeah, I think what you're saying is so important.

One of the things you're saying in the exercise analogy is that you're becoming more familiar with...

What happens?

And as you become more familiar, there's less resistance because you know that the initial, I mean, when I go out on a bike ride, you know, the first 10 minutes are agony for me, honestly.

But I know that because I'm familiar with it, I know that at a certain mile distance it's going to change and it does very reliably.

And we also similarly can become more familiar with our own minds.

The familiarity is the same kind of concept.

We can become more familiar with our own minds and when we become more familiar with our own minds, our capacities become more readily available, more spontaneously available.