1. Step 1: Train Your Attention
Ronelle Langley, Ph.D.

2. 4-Step Plan for Resilient Living
Train Your Attention
Cultivate Emotional Balance
Start a Body-Mind Practice
Pick Healthy Habits

3. Re-awakens the child within you who finds joy in the mundane
Two steps in Transformation: Retraining Our Brain & Re-engaging Our Heart
Step 1:
Re-awakens the child within you who finds joy in the mundane
Step 2:
Creating interpretations based on principle-based skills of: Gratitude, Compassion, Acceptance, Meaning, Forgiveness.

4. Train Your Attention
Attention training wakes up the child in you who found the world novel and fascinating, and a place to have fun.
- Amit Sood

6. Joyful Attention
#1: Wake up with gratitude
Gratitude meditation

7. Joyful Attention
#2: Taste of nature once a day

8. Joyful Attention
#3: Heartfully meet loved ones

9. Joyful Attention
…or friends

10. Kind Attention
Neutral eyes
Judgmental eyes
Kind eyes

11. Kind Attention

13. Joyful & Kind Attention
Train it
Sustain it
Find empty times
As part of daily life (e.g., elevator)
Waiting (e.g., grocery line)
Improve overall wellbeing
Involve others (accountable buddies)
Joyful and kind attention can change brain structure

14. What We Learn from Neurosciences
Contemplative practices are important ways for training attention
Similar structural changes in brain for Eastern and Western meditation practitioners
Benefits
More relaxed state of mind
Reduces anxiety
Increases resilience
Lowers stress
Improves attention and memory

15. Resources Research, Articles and Videos The Neuroscience of Happiness
Brain scan of French monk
Brain scans show meditation changes minds, increases attention
Mayo Clinic - Mind and Body Connection
Attention and Interpretation Therapy
The Four Keys to Well-Being