Offering listeners a way to live life fully, Trudy Goodman explores how to overcome the brain's negative bias by inclining the mind toward appreciation. 

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In this episode, Trudy Goodman gives a lecture on:

• The mind’s tendency to view things negatively 
• How evolutionary wiring shapes what we notice and what we miss
• A powerful teaching from loved ones at the end of life: do all things with joy
• Remembering that our heart is inclined toward that which we pay attention to
• How micro-moments of mindfulness accumulate into lasting transformation
• Building new neural pathways through steady, repeated practice
• Living fully with both joy and difficulty instead of moving into denial
• Ensuring that we do not overlook that which will grow our spiritual wealth
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• Realizing that both our feelings about a situation and the situation itself do not really matter
• Why the Buddha wanted us to look deeply at our suffering and to question it
• Taking in the goodness of your very own being

This recording was originally published on Dharmaseed.

About Trudy Goodman:

Trudy is a Vipassana teacher in the Theravada lineage and the Founding Teacher of InsightLA. For 25 years, in Cambridge, MA, Trudy practiced mindfulness-based psychotherapy with children, teenagers, couples and individuals. Trudy conducts retreats, engages in activism work, and teaches workshops worldwide and online. She is also the voice of Trudy the Love Barbarian in the Netflix series, The Midnight Gospel. You can learn more about Trudy’s flourishing array of wonderful offerings at TrudyGoodman.com

“This took me so long to understand in my practice: that what I think about what’s happening doesn’t matter. Actually, what’s happening doesn’t even matter. All that matters is do we know it? Can we be with it without being hard on ourselves, shaming ourselves, blaming somebody else? All that matters is our quality of attention to it.” –Trudy Goodman

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