Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from 5-star app Meditation Studio and Muse, the brain-sensing

headband that gives you feedback on your meditation practice. I'm Patricia Carpice, co-founder

of Meditation Studio, and your host on Untangle, along with my co-host, Muse founder, Ariel Garten. This month, we're

focusing on happiness. What is it? How do you invite more of it into your life? You will be

surprised to learn that it's not exactly what you think. Join us each week this month as we explore this topic together.

If you have feedback, questions, ideas, or stories to share about happiness, email us at

founders at meditation studio app.com. Now here's Ariel.

Hello.

This week, we're going to take you inside the brain

and show you what happens in the brain when it's happy,

or at least en route to being happy,

and what our brain's systems and wiring can reveal to us

about how to increase the happiness in our lives.

We're excited to have Dr. Alex Corb back here with us.

And my apologies in advance on the auto equality on my side of the interview this week.

But the information he shares is so interesting you won't want to miss it.

Alex is a neuroscientist whose book The Upward Spiral shows you how to work with your brain to improve

depression and improve happiness. Alex did a wonderful interview with us a few months back,

and we needed to get further inside his head to show us what our brains look like when they're

happy. Welcome, Alex. Thanks. Thanks for having me. Frived for you to be here.

Glad to be back. So today we're going to dive into the brain on happiness. And the first

question is the most obvious one. What happens in the brain when you're happy?

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