Ep 107. Practical Ways to Rewire Your Brain for Resiliency with Dr. Rick Hanson

Not Another Anxiety Show

Kelli Walker

Therapy, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Health, Alternative Health, Mental Health, Anxiety, Claireweekes, Counseling, Brenebrown, Research, Meditation, Panicattacks, Science, Selfhelp, Stress

4.8 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Join Kelli and guest Dr. Rick Hanson as they chat about practical ways to rewire your brain for resiliency, happiness, and calm.

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0:00.0	Hey, guys, welcome to not another anxiety show. I'm your host, Kelly Walker, and joining me today is guest Dr. Rick Hansen. Hi, Rick. Hi, Kelly.
0:20.6	So glad you could make time to be on the show
0:22.5	today. Honestly, it's an honor and a pleasure, truly. Yeah. Now, do you mind if I share your bio
0:29.3	with the listeners out there before we get started? I'd prefer to remain incognito. Not really,
0:35.2	not really. It's okay. Please do. Great. Rick Hansen, Ph.D., is a psychologist,
0:42.5	senior fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and New York Times bestseller author.
0:48.3	His books include Hardwiring Happiness, Buddha's Brain, Just One Thing, and Mother Nurture.
0:55.0	He edits the Wise Brain Bulletin and has numerous audio programs.
0:59.0	A summa cum laude graduate of UCLA and founder of the Well Spring Institute for Neuroscience
1:04.0	and Contemplative Wisdom, he's been an invited speaker at NASA, Oxford, Stanford, Harvard,
1:10.0	and other major universities, and taught in
1:12.5	meditation centers worldwide. His work has been featured on BBC, CBS, and NPR, and he offers the free
1:19.7	just-one-thing newsletter with over 120,000 subscribers, plus the online foundations of well-being
1:26.1	program in positive neuroplasticity that anyone with
1:29.6	financial need can do for free. So that word right there, neuroplasticity, I'm hoping to pick
1:35.6	your brain on that today. No pun intended. Now, I just finished your book hardwiring happiness
1:43.8	a couple weeks ago. And I was hoping, because I think this is really relevant and prevalent, to all our listeners out there.
1:51.5	Can you describe what experience-dependent neuroplasticity is?
1:56.2	I know it's a big fancy word, but it's actually a really interesting and applicable concept to those of us that struggle with anxiety.
2:05.9	Yeah, it is a thing.
2:08.3	Pardon me. It's right at time.
2:12.1	That phrase is right at the heart of hope.
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