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Here are summary bullet quotes from Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body by Daniel Goleman and Richard J. Davidson:
🧘♂️🧠 Summary Bullet Quotes – Altered Traits
by Daniel Goleman & Richard J. Davidson
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“Altered states are temporary; altered traits are lasting transformations.”
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“The real power of meditation isn’t a fleeting bliss—it’s who you become over time.”
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“Consistent practice reshapes the brain toward greater calm, clarity, and compassion.”
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“Meditation changes not just how we feel, but how we function.”
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“Advanced meditators don’t escape emotions—they master how they respond to them.”
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“Scientific rigor now supports what ancient wisdom long claimed: meditation can transform us.”
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“Well-being is not a trait you're born with—it's a skill you can train.”
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The basic strategy for maintaining your personal water-based life-
support system in a dry, terrestrial world is to ingest water and limit how
much you lose. In wet habitats, that’s easy. Animals that live in or near the
water, like beavers, drink whenever they like and don’t need to worry much
about how much they lose each day. Our ape relatives, living in rainforests,
have it easy as well. Chimpanzees, orangutans, and gorillas consume so
much water in the juicy fruits and leaves they eat that they rarely need to
drink. They can happily go days or even weeks without drinking.
Humans have it harder. We live in habitats all over the globe, including
dry savannas and deserts. And we cook our food, which often dehydrates it.
If we don’t drink, we’re dead. Even with our kidneys doing their best to
minimize water loss, we can’t go more than two or three days without
drinking or we’ll die.
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Dogs, cats, and most other mammals experience a sensory world
dominated by smell and sound. Our primate ancestors, evolving in highly
three-dimensional tree canopies to find and eat flowers and fruits, evolved
to become visual creatures, depending more on what they could see. Real
estate in the brain was taken from olfaction and ceded to processing visual
stimuli. New alleles evolved for the genes that make the light-sensitive
proteins (opsins) in the rod and cone cells lining the retina (the light-
sensitive membrane in the back of the eye), enabling our monkey-like
ancestors to distinguish different frequencies of light. We call those
different frequencies “colors.” The powerful visual processing cores in the
back of your brain turn the scrambled chaos of color flooding your retinas
every second into the spaces, objects, and beings that you call the world.
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