420: Neurodharma with Rick Hanson

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🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Meditation can reduce cortisol, increase telomere length, improve concentration, and foster feelings of unity. But it’s also very, very hard to practice consistently. Stillness is a serious challenge. Despite the plethora of books and apps and mindfulness training programs, most of us still talk a good meditation game but fail to back it up with practice.

On this week’s show, you’ll meet an author, teacher, and lifelong meditator who shares his no-nonsense approach to the practices of Buddhist meditation and mindfulness.

Learn How Meditation:

Improves both proprioception and interoception
Decrease the fear and anxiety activity of the amygdala
Reduces Default Mode Network activity responsible for self-focused, rumination and daydreaming
Increases concentration

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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Rick Hanson, PhD is a psychologist, Senior Fellow of UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center, and New York Times best-selling author. His books include: Neurodharma, Resilient, Hardwiring Happiness, Buddha's Brain, Just One Thing, and Mother Nurture. He's lectured at NASA, Google, Oxford, and Harvard, and taught in meditation centers worldwide.

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0:00.0	It seems like at least once a month for as long as I can remember there's some new breakthrough
0:08.7	research published about meditation and universally whether it's coming out of an obscure
0:14.5	scientific journal at a university or some mainstream publication like
0:17.9	Scientific American or New York Times it seems like all the research is a go it's a green light and it's saying that
0:23.9	meditation can reduce your cortisol levels meditation can lengthen your
0:28.0	telomeres length in your lifespan it can help you to sleep better it can improve
0:32.0	your digestion and it the list goes on and on it's almost too good to be true
0:37.3	and it's also frustrating because we don't practice we don't sit down on the floor we don't
0:41.6	clear our minds we just don't it. I know you've got the
0:43.7	apps on your phone. Maybe you've been to a meditation retreat, maybe you've read a bunch of books, but we just
0:48.0	don't do it, despite the fact that we know it's good for us and there's so many things in life that are so clearly so
0:53.8	obviously good for us that we don't do it's been one of the the big biggest things
0:59.3	that confounds me these recent years is how can we have something that's so clearly so
1:03.4	obviously good for us that we don't do on this week's podcast I'll be
1:06.9	chatting with Rick Hansen he's a author he's an expert he's a meditation
1:11.1	teacher in his own right and he's really dedicated his life to the study and practice and teaching of mindfulness and meditation and he's got some really great insights in terms of the practice, the ideology, ideological trappings that often come along with
1:25.8	spiritual practices, and really the hard science behind some of the benefits of meditation.
1:31.6	If you're new here, it's the Lucas Rockwood show I'm a
1:34.1	yoga teacher I'm a trainer I'm a serial entrepreneur my father of three
1:38.2	international kids but at the end of the day I'm really just a student I like to
1:41.6	learn things this show is about me going out into the world
1:44.4	and finding people who are writing books or doing research or yoga teachers medical doctors
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