How to Change Your Brain

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Today, we're exploring the single most important skill we will ever teach on this podcast: How to change the brain in lasting ways. The dirty secret of the personal growth industry, and self-help and psychology more broadly, is that most of what we learn doesn't stick. So, what can we do to achieve the ‘holy grail’ of personal growth – lasting change in our hearts, minds, and behaviors? Rick's Course: If you'd like to learn more about how to change your brain for the better, check out Rick's Positive Neuroplasticity Training. It's a six-week online course that will teach you how to beat your brain's negativity bias, and have more confidence, compassion, and inner peace. Use coupon code BEWELL50 at checkout for $50 off the purchase price! Key Topics: 3:30: What is neuroplasticity? 8:00: The power of deliberate practice. 9:30: Meditation and the brain. 12:45: Why is it so hard to change? The negativity bias. 19:45: Human exceptionalism and energy conservation. 23:00: An experiential example. 30:30: How to change deep-seated issues. 36:45: The Positive Neuroplasticity Training. 39:15: Changing self-concept to change behavior. 49:00: Participating in who you are becoming. From Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 at checkout for an additional 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Sponsors: Want fresh, delicious, simple dinners delivered right to your doorstep? Check out HelloFresh, America’s #1 meal kit, and use code beingwell90 to get $90 off including free shipping! Want to sleep better? Try the legendary Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription. Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Connect with the show: Follow us on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. Welcome to Being Well, I'm Forrest Tansen. Thanks for taking the time to listen today.
0:09.1	If you've been listening to the podcast for a while, you've been given a lot of information about how to
0:14.0	improve your mental health by learning new skills, releasing old pain, and generally
0:19.6	deepening your knowledge and understanding of both yourself and other people. your
0:23.0	and other people. A major focus of the podcast is giving you great tools
0:27.0	and hopefully teaching you how to use them really well.
0:30.0	But the dirty secret of the personal growth industry and self-help and psychology more broadly is that many of those tools don't stick
0:38.6	Whether it's a New Year's resolution that's quickly abandoned a new habit that fails to take, or a good piece of advice
0:45.5	someone gets from a therapist that falls to the wayside after a few weeks.
0:49.9	Most change is temporary. And to be really open about this here, I've had more than a few
0:55.4	problems with this personally. So what can we do to achieve the holy grail of
1:01.0	personal growth, lasting change in our hearts, minds, and behaviors.
1:06.5	To help us figure that out, I'm joined today as usual by Dr. Rick Anson.
1:10.6	Rick is a clinical psychologist and a best-selling author who spent over 35 years teaching people the key lessons from psychology and contemplative practice that lead to a good life.
1:20.0	I'm also happy to say that he's my dad. So dad, how are you doing today?
1:25.0	I'm doing really well personally and I am seriously
1:29.0	stoked to use a California term from my childhood.
1:32.0	Now we're talking about this subject. to use a California term for my childhood.
1:32.8	Now we're talking about this subject.
1:35.2	Yeah, so we're doing this episode in part
1:38.2	because I looked back through our catalog and I realized that we haven't really done a focused how to change your brain episode for at least a year or so, maybe longer, our very very first episode, which is actually just you talking in a little recording studio at like 2016 or 2015 or something
1:56.3	is titled I think How to Have a Happier Brain and since then we kind of haven't done one.
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