you can decide to get eggs from the refrigerator without craving them — and without getting upset if there are none left. - Rick Hanson

Mental resources like determination, self-worth, and kindness are what make us resilient: able to cope with adversity and push through challenges in the pursuit of opportunities. While resilience helps us recover from loss and trauma, it offers much more than that. True resilience fosters well-being, an underlying sense of happiness, love, and peace. Remarkably, as you internalize experiences of well-being, that builds inner strengths which in turn make you more resilient. Well-being and resilience promote each other in an upward spiral.

For all their effects on the body, second darts usually have their greatest impact on psychological well-being.

Repeated mental/neural activity leaves lasting changes in neural structure: what’s called experience-dependent neuroplasticity.