Hello and welcome to being well I'm Forrest Hanson. Today we're going to be finishing the theme of learning by focusing on the fourth stage of the heel process,

linking. When we link, we use good experiences we have in the flow of everyday life

to replace old negative material that grows in the garden of the mind.

To walk us through this, I'm joined by Dr. Rick Hansen.

Dad, how are you doing?

Good?

So we don't normally do this, but before we got into the material of today's podcast I just wanted to make a

quick mention of something that happened recently our book resilient on which all of

this material is based came out on March 27th I'm really about it. This is the first book that's had my name

Anywhere approaching being on it. I think this is actually your fifth book, is that right?

Yeah, definitely. Okay, so it's old hat for you, but for me, it's new and exciting.

If you're interested in purchasing resilient, we'll drop a link into the description of this

podcast if you're interested in checking it out and learning some more.

Wonderful.

So there's no smooth transition from there

into the content of this podcast,

but to kind of start us off, what do you mean by linking?

Linking simply means being aware of two things at once, positive and negative.

And the simple idea, based in the underlying neuroscience summarized in the saying, neurons

that fire together wire together together is if you get both positive and

negative firing at the same time in your mind and the positive is bigger and

more prominent and more powerful than the negative, it naturally starts to associate

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