Magicians rarely like to explain their tricks. Since I'm not a professional magician though, I can let you in on a little magic trick for growing a strong and healthy brain. Actually, it's a big one. It's so big in fact that to properly explain it, I need to break down into a series of posts. In a nutshell, it's about going from a red brain of reactivity to stress to a green brain of calm and contentment in defiance of the stress all around us. First, however, I must give full credit to Rick Hanson, the source of my inspiration and newfound knowledge on building happiness into my life and yours. He is a prominent neuropsychologist at UC Berkeley and has written an international bestselling book, Hardwiring Happiness: the new science of contentment, calm and confidence , which I hope you will read too. All of what I'm about to say comes from the magic of the discoveries found within the pages of his book and how it's impr...