Neurodharma

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

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

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🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Throughout history people have sought the heights of human potential - to become as wise, strong, happy, and loving as any person can ever be. Call these peak experiences, sense of oneness, or enlightenment itself. And now, science is revealing how these remarkable ways of being seem to be based on equally remarkable changes in our own nervous system. What do those individuals have in common, how did they reach that summit, and what can we learn from them? That's the subject of Rick's new book: Neurodharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness. Neurodharma comes out May 5th, and is now available for pre-order. Click here if you'd like to learn more. New Sponsor: Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Key Topics: 2:15: What is the upper bound of human potential, and why should we care? 5:30: Different ways of knowing ourselves 10:00: How can modern science contribute to personal growth? 15:00: How is the brain of an “enlightened” person different from our own? 20:00: The janas, and how they change the brain. 24:00: The seven practices of the highest happiness. 28:00: Experiencing the body as a whole. 35:00: Balancing me and we. 40:00: Egocentric and allocentric. Sponsor Message: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. 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. 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 Hansen. I'm joined as usual by Dr. Rick Hansen and today we have a very special episode for you that I've been looking forward to for a while now.
0:15.0	Throughout history people have sought the heights of human potential
0:18.0	to become as wise, strong, happy, and loving as any person can ever be. Call these peak experiences or the sense of
0:25.4	oneness or even enlightenment itself. And now science is revealing how these
0:30.3	remarkable ways of being seem to be based on equally remarkable changes in our own nervous system.
0:36.0	Most of the people who set on on that journey to the heights to what is plausibly the ultimate and personal growth
0:41.4	never reach the summit. But that doesn't make the trip any
0:44.3	less worthwhile there's such a good point well thank you
0:50.0	you broke me out of my central read here.
0:54.3	Yeah, no, I think that it's a central part of the whole conversation,
0:56.9	which we'll get into in a moment.
0:58.7	There's to some degree an existential question
1:01.0	as to whether there is such a thing as a summit at all.
1:03.2	Some of the people who've made it there are famous, but most probably aren't.
1:07.0	And the breakthroughs experienced by these individuals are more attainable than ever
1:11.3	before. So what do they have in common?
1:14.0	How do they reach the summit?
1:16.0	And what can we learn from them?
1:17.0	This is the subject of my friend, co-host, and father,
1:21.0	Rick Hansen's new book,
1:23.7	Neurodarma, New Science, Ancient Wisdom,
1:26.3	and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness.
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