text: Dr. Rick Hanson: Growing the good of healing and growing the good of cultivation and development. That takes us into a word you used earlier, neuroplasticity, as you know, the capacity of the nervous system to be changed by our experiences. And so, if we’re going to develop a resource like self-compassion or grit or, let’s say, happiness in the midst of our difficulties, fundamentally we need to change the body. Otherwise there’s no lasting shift from state to trait. And that’s been very much my focus.