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Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Rick Hanson.

Rick Hanson is a neuropsychologist and author of several programs with Sounds True,

including The Enlightened Brain,

Meditations for Happiness,

and a new program on self-directed brain change.

Founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom,

and an advisory board member of the Greater Good Science Center at

UC Berkeley. Rick is the author of a new book hard wiring happiness, the new brain science of contentment, calm and confidence.

In this episode of Insights at The Edge, Rick and I spoke about how to install positive brain states as lasting traits.

We also talked about three different ways of working with unpleasant experiences, letting be, letting go, and letting in.

Finally, we talked about our needs for safety, reward, and emotional connection, and how to respond in situations

when any one of these three needs are threatened.

Here's part one of my conversation with Rick Hansen on

self-directed brain change.

Rick my own sense is that the idea of neuroplasticity is now fairly well accepted in the culture as a whole, this idea that our brains can change.

But you're now writing and teaching about something that you call positive

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