Dear Church Family and Friends,
As some of you heard at our Ash Wednesday service, I have recently been listening to an audio book called Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom. In this book written by a neuropsychologist and a neurologist, the authors talk about how the human brain is biased toward focusing on the negative. They note that the brain “preferentially scans for, registers, stores, recalls, and reacts to unpleasant experiences…it’s like Velcro for negative experiences and Teflon for positive ones.”