374: Dr. Jud Brewer - The Craving Mind, Finding Joy In Meditation, Overcoming Addictions
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2020
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Jud Brewer “Dr. Jud” (@judbrewer) is a thought leader in the field of habit change and the “science of self-mastery”. He's a psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for addictions. Dr. Jud is the Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center and an associate professor at Brown University.
He has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for habit change, including both in-person and app-based treatments for smoking, emotional eating, and anxiety.
Dr. Jud is the author of The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love – Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits.
In this episode, we discuss:
- As humans, we learn the same as sea slugs
- The connection between stress and IBS
- Learning breath awareness meditation
- What happens to our brains when we meditate?
- What is the default mode network (DMN)?
- The definition of addiction
- Social media can be just as addictive as drugs
- The abstinence violation effect
- Does willpower exist?
- How to change reward value behavior
- Using mindfulness as the bigger better offer (BBO)
- Curiosity feels better than a craving
- Changing the habit loop
- The art of Loving-Kindness Meditation
- The role of the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC)
- Letting go with psychedelic therapy
- Dr. Jud’s experience at a silent meditation retreat
- Finding joy in meditation
- Moments of mindfulness throughout the day
- Using mindfulness to break a bad habit
- Staying curious
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Related links:
Dr. Jud Brewer - The Craving Mind (book)
Follow Dr. Jud Brewer on Facebook and Twitter
Jon Kabat Zinn – Full Catastrophe Living (book)
Quitting starts in the brain (article)
Neural correlates of the psychedelic state as determined by fMRI studies with psilocybin (article)
Mihaly Csikszentmihaly - Flow (book)
Oak - Meditation & Breathing (app)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast, |
| 0:02.4 | once that reward value starts to drop |
| 0:04.9 | through that negative prediction error, |
| 0:06.8 | our brain is always looking for something better. |
| 0:09.1 | It says, okay, if overeating isn't that great, |
| 0:12.2 | you got to give me something better, otherwise, even if it's not that great I'm going to still do it |
| 0:16.2 | Here we can actually bring in mindfulness itself as that bigger, better offer. Ultimate Health and I'm Jesse Chappas and I'm here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:36.0 | Each week I'll bring you inspiring and informative conversations about health and wellness |
| 0:40.0 | covering topics of nutrition, lifestyle, fitness, mindset, and so much more. |
| 0:46.1 | And this week I'm chatting with Dr. Judd Brewer. |
| 0:48.8 | He's a thought leader in the field of habit change and the quote-quote science of self mastery. |
| 0:53.2 | He's a psychiatrist an internationally known expert in mindfulness training for addictions. |
| 0:58.3 | Dr. Judd is the director of research and innovation of the |
| 1:01.4 | mindfulness center and an associate professor at Brown University. |
| 1:05.2 | He's developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for habit change, including both in-person |
| 1:10.6 | and app-based treatments for smoking, emotional eating, and anxiety. |
| 1:14.4 | Dr Judd is the author of The Craving Mind from cigarettes to smartphones to love, |
| 1:19.1 | why we get hooked, and how we can break bad habits. And Dr Judd and I just had a great conversation. |
| 1:25.0 | We really connected, got on a lot of great tangents, |
| 1:28.0 | I know you're going to love this. |
| 1:29.0 | Some of the highlights include how as humans we learn the same as C-slugs, the connection between stress and |
| 1:34.8 | IBS and Dr. Judd shares a personal story with this one. |
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