Rick Hanson on Neurodharma, Corona & 7 Practices of Awakening
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Are y’all ready to geek out with me today? We are going deep!
Today’s episode is a special interview with Dr. Rick Hanson about his new book Neurodharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness
Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, Senior Fellow of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, and New York Times best-selling author. He’s lectured at NASA, Google, Oxford, and Harvard, and taught in meditation centers worldwide.
I am so thrilled to share this conversation with Rick today; his book Buddha’s Brain is one I reference all the time as a meditation teacher, and this new book couldn’t arrive at a better time. The book is described as offering “effective ways to find profound contentment and inner peace in a turbulent world,” and I truly found many of the practices he offered to be timely in this pandemic.
Rick outlines 7 practices that he’s seen through many different traditions {Christianity, Sufism, Buddhism, etc.} that all lead towards increasing levels of happiness. In this interview, we talk about
All 7 practices of awakening
love and anger in the time of Corona
the truth of the mind grounded in the truth of the body
The neuroscience behind our meditative experiences
and more
Be sure you keep listening for the meditation Rick leads at the end of today’s episode; he guides us through all 7 stages of awakening in a 10 minute practice to give us a taste of what is possible in a meditation practice. This conversation goes deep quick; stay with us as we explore some of the places a meditation practice can lead!
You can learn more about Rick via rickhanson.net and you can access the Neurodharma online class he mentions in this episode here: https://www.rickhanson.net/teaching/neurodharma-online-program/
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