The ‘feeling’ component of orientation to outcomes follows in the process of understanding how your thoughts influence what actually happens for you. Your ‘state of being’ ultimately comes down to how you feel, and by paying attention to your feelings, you can better understand and manage them. There is significant data to support this, including work by Richard Davidson at the University of Madison, who used functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine Buddhist monks in meditation. He demonstrated that when images of emotion and feeling, such as compassion were focused on, left prefrontal brain activity, where feeling occurs, exceeded that of the right side for these practitioners. What this means is that a positive state can be trained. Moods are trainable mental states. This experiment elegantly emphasizes the power of your thoughts and your ability to manage them. You can rearrange your neural circuits through the power of your mind.