Sunday, April 15, 2018

The Happiest Man in the World's 15-Minute Prescription for Happiness

Who is the happiest man in the world?

If you Google it, the name “Matthieu Ricard” pops up.

Matthieu Ricard, 69, is a Tibetan Buddhist monk who has been called “the world’s happiest man.”

That’s because he participated in a 12-year brain study on meditation and compassion led by a neuroscientist from the University of Wisconsin, Richard Davidson. Davidson hooked up Ricard’s head to 256 sensors and found that when Ricard was meditating on compassion, his mind was unusually light.


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