I'm Dr. Deb Butler and you are listening to Thinner Peace and Menopause and Beyond. This is

episode number 387. Welcome to Thinner Piece and Menopause and Beyond. This is Dr. Deb Butler,

master life and weight coach. and as always, your coach.

If you're a woman and you're smart and you're successful and you've been struggling with weight your whole life,

and now menopause is making it harder than ever, and you are ready to make this the last time you ever have to go on a diet again,

then this podcast is for you. Stay tuned. Well, hello, all my dear friends all over the world.

You know, that's how I always start this podcast by saying hello to all of you who are listening

to me. It's a privilege to be with you today, no matter where you are in the world. And I have a

lot of things that I'd like to talk about, which I say every single time, because I always have a lot

to talk about. But one of the things that I've been really

interested in lately is I've been listening to Tara Brock, who is another Western

psychologist who teaches Buddhism and who is very, very big into meditation. She's written many,

many books. And I really love to listen to

some of her talks, her Dharma talks, on the brain. And one of the things that she was talking about this

time that I wanted to share with you is that she talked about in Buddhist psychology, one of the ways that the brain and happiness is talked about

is to talk about gladdening the mind, which is another way of saying how to make you happy.

But I love the term gladdening your mind. And she went over three different ways on how you can make yourself

happy by attending to your mind and make it happy. Or, as she puts it, gladdening your mind.

Now, the first two things that she talks about, the first two steps, I'll go over, but I'll go over

it kind of quickly because I think you know about it, but I still love it and it's still a reminder

to you to not forget to do it. So the first one is one way to gladden your mind is to point it

in the direction of gratification. So, you know, the more grateful you are, the better

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