Every time you take in the sense of feeling safe, satisfied, or connected, you stimulate responsive circuits in your brain. - Rick Hanson

Mammals, including us, become friendly, playful, curious, and creative when they feel safe, satisfied, and connected.

The key to growing any psychological resource, including compassion, is to have repeated experiences of it that get turned into lasting changes in neural structure or function.

Being for yourself simply means that you care about yourself. You wish to feel happy instead of worried, sad, guilty, or angry. You want people to treat you well instead of badly. You want to help your future self — the person you’ll be next week, next year, next decade — to have as good a life as possible.