Ep 182. The Neuroscience of Mindfulness with Dr. Jud Brewer

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

🗓️ 6 May 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Join Kelli and guest Dr. Jud Brewer as they chat about how the brain forms habits, like anxiety, and the neuroscience behind mindfulness. If you've been wondering how and why mindfulness changes the brain for the better, then this episode is for you!

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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. Judd Brewer. Thanks so much for hopping on the show today.
0:22.0	Thanks for having me.
0:25.8	Now, do you mind if I share a little bit more about you before we get started?
0:26.8	Please.
0:33.9	Wonderful. Judd Brewer, MD, Ph.D., is an internationally known thought leader in the field of habit change and the science of self-mastery, having combined over 20 years of experience
0:38.5	with mindfulness training with his scientific research therein. He is the Director of Research
0:43.2	and Innovation at Brown University's Mindfulness Center and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the
0:48.2	Medical School. Dr. Brewer has developed novel mindfulness programs for habit change, including
0:53.8	smoking, stress eating, including smoking,
0:54.6	stress eating, and anxiety, and has studied their underlying brain mechanisms.
1:00.0	His work has been featured on 60 Minutes at TED.com, in Time Magazine, Forbes, NPR, and the BBC,
1:06.2	among others. He is the author of The Craving Mind, from Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love, Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits.
1:13.6	You can learn more by visiting his website, Dr. Judd.com, and follow him on Twitter at Judd Brewer.
1:21.0	So first and foremost, you gave a fabulous TED talk about the nature of habit formation, particularly in the context
1:29.5	of addiction, cigarette smoking.
1:32.0	Do you mind giving us a quick rundown just before we get started of how any behavior becomes
1:38.7	a habit?
1:40.0	I'd be happy to.
1:41.1	I think it, from what we can tell, a lot of these behaviors have developed
1:46.3	through an evolutionary mechanism that really just helps us remember where food is. And it has
1:51.3	three elements that trigger, a behavior, and a reward or result. So if we see food, that's the
1:57.4	trigger. We eat the food. That's the behavior, then the results or the
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