Bonus Holiday Re-Issue: Rick Hanson

The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Buddhism, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This week we talk to Dr. Rick Hanson about hardwiring happiness into our brain Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a neuropsychologist and author of Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence as well as Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom and Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time. He is the Founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom and an Affiliate of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, he's been an invited speaker at Oxford, Stanford, and Harvard, and taught in meditation centers worldwide. An authority on self-directed neuroplasticity, Dr. Hanson's work has been featured on the BBC, NPR, CBC, Fox Business, Consumer Reports Health, U.S. News and World Report, and O Magazine, and his articles have appeared in Tricycle Magazine, Insight Journal, and Inquiring Mind. In This Interview Rick and I Discuss... The One You Feed parable. His latest book: Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence. That feeding the good wolf is a daily habit. How it's our responsibility to feed our good wolf- no one can do it for us. How frequently our brain changes. Experience-dependent neuroplasticity. That our brains are like velcro for the bad and Teflon for the good. Deciding what we cultivate and what do you restrain. The human tendency to overlearn from our bad experiences and under learn from our good ones. Learning to "install" our beneficial experiences. His practice of "taking in the good". The difference between positive thinking and taking in the good. The benefits of realistic thinking over positive thinking. Moving positive memories into longer term memory. How neurons that fire together wire together. Ways to deepen our experiences: Duration, Intensity, Multimodality, Novelty and Salience. The fundamental neuropsychology of learning, Taking on the good in four words: Have it, Enjoy It. How self hate and harshness are not motivating in the long term. Being numb from the neck down. The three-step way to working with negative emotions. The analogy of a garden for how we tend to our minds: Be with the Garden, Pull the Weeds, Plan Flowers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Eric from the one you feed. Happy holidays to you. Whether you enjoy them or you hate them,
0:05.7	I hope you're making the best of them. As a holiday gift and as preparation for the new year, we are
0:12.3	re-releasing seven of the older episodes. If you're new to the show, all these episodes are over a year
0:19.9	old, so you may not have heard these yet if you've only been listening for a year. I pick the episodes
0:26.4	because either A, I think it's a really great episode, or B, I think it talks about behavior change,
0:32.5	which we're heading into the new year and that's on a lot of people's mind. Speaking of which,
0:37.6	we are going to try something this new year. We're going to try the first one you feed group
0:43.9	transformation program. It'll be $100 for a month. We're going to limit it to 10 people. We will
0:50.7	meet online four times that month. We'll discuss tips and tricks and different ways to ensure that
0:56.8	you stay on track behavior wise. You'll be able to ask questions of me and we'll do some things where
1:02.4	you're paired up as a group so that you can get some support outside of the calls as well to make
1:07.2	sure you get the new year off to a great start. So if you're interested, just send an email to me,
1:12.2	Eric at oneufeed.net. I hope you enjoy these episodes. I'd listen back to a couple of them and
1:18.6	let's just leave it at we are getting better at what we do. In the very first one, I sound very
1:26.4	nervous and I was. Anyway, it's still a great interview. Enjoy these. Have a happy new year. Thank
1:34.7	you for listening and we will talk to you soon. Bye. As I put it, we've got a brain that's like
1:41.6	Velcro for the bad, the Teflon for the good.
1:52.4	Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of
1:57.6	the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
2:04.6	And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity,
2:10.7	self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that
2:17.4	hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes
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