381: Dr. Dan Siegel - The Mind Is Broader Than The Brain
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Dan Siegel (IG: @drdansiegel) is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. He is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute which focuses on the development of mindsight and teaches insight, empathy, and integration in individuals, families and communities.
Dan has published extensively for both professional and lay audiences. He has five New York Times bestselling books.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How Dan became fascinated with the mind
- What is mindsight?
- Applying mindsight to medical training
- When you shut off your mindsight circuits, you shut off your empathy
- The 5 parts to empathy
- Active versus passive compassion
- What leads to empathy fatigue?
- The connection between the mind and the brain
- What is interpersonal neurobiology?
- The mind is broader than the brain and bigger than the body
- The brain in your head is the third brain
- Me + We = MWe
- The 9 domains of integration aka The Wheel of Awareness
- The best predictor of health, happiness & longevity is your relationships
- How to live a more integrative life
- Building inner resilience
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Dr. Dan Siegel - Mindsight (book)
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Ultimate Health Podcast, |
| 0:02.0 | You are your relationships with other people that are close to you, |
| 0:05.0 | your relationship with your community, |
| 0:07.0 | relationships with the culture you live in, |
| 0:09.0 | in a relationship with nature. |
| 0:10.0 | So all of these relationships, not just with humans, they aren't just icing on the cake, they're not even the dessert. |
| 0:16.8 | They're the main meal in many ways. And so when we study well-being, for and longevity and you see these books coming out recently about this |
| 0:26.7 | yes the best predictor of your health and happiness and longevity how long you live are your |
| 0:32.4 | relationships and longevity, how long you live, are your relationships. |
| 0:33.2 | Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast, episode 381. |
| 0:42.3 | I'm Jesse Chappas and I'm here to take your health support. Health Podcast, Episode 381. |
| 0:42.7 | I'm Jesse Chappas and I'm here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:46.2 | Each week I'll bring you in-up conversations with health and wellness leaders from |
| 0:49.4 | around the world. |
| 0:50.7 | And this week I'm chatting with Dr. Dan Siegel. He's a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. |
| 1:02.0 | He's also the executive director of the Mindsite Institute |
| 1:04.9 | which focuses on the development of Mindsite and teaches insight, empathy, and |
| 1:09.2 | integration for individuals, families, and communities. |
| 1:12.6 | Dan has published extensively for both professional lay audiences |
| 1:16.3 | and he has five New York Times best-selling books. |
| 1:19.4 | I really enjoyed this conversation with Dan, |
| 1:21.9 | and I'd love to get him back on in the future to pick his brain even more. |
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