Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from Five Star App Meditation Studio.

I'm Patricia Carpus, co-founder of Meditation Studio and your host on Untangle, along with my co-host, Ariel Garten, one of the founders of brain-sensing headband Muse.

Join us each week as we introduce you to authors, experts, and thought leaders who share

their stories on how meditation, mindfulness, and brain-focused practices have the power to

change our lives.

Whether you're just learning to meditate or want to deepen your practice, meditation studio

with hundreds of guided meditations, and Muse, which gives

you real-time feedback on your mind during meditation, and Muse 2, which also tracks your

breath, your heart, and your body, are tools you'll definitely want to have in your back pocket.

Now, here's this week's episode with Ariel.

So when you're profusing the brain with dopamine, seroton, and oxytocin, endorphins,

all of these positive hormones, they actually create a better environment to create new neural

connections.

They actually support that connection making.

Ariel, you've gotten me to talk about so many things I haven't talked about.

Man, we are fast-forwarding through so much. Thank you for that.

And it's through that, you basically make the rest of the landscape for habit formation more fertile,

you know, and that's something that I don't often get to talk about. I mention it in the book, but that's exactly right.

Hello, and happy New Year.

I hope everybody had an amazing holiday time, and the start to the new year has been magnificent.

We have a really special treat today to kick off 2020.

So I imagine most of us have been making some form of resolution.

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