This incredible package features Rick Hanson's best selling DVD, The Practical Neuroscience of Buddha's Brain, and includes his book Buddha's Brain - FREE!
BOOK - Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love & Wisdom
Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, Gandhi, and the Buddha all had brains built essentially like anyone else's, yet they were able to harness their thoughts and shape their patterns of thinking in ways that changed history. With new breakthroughs in modern neuroscience and the wisdom of thousands of years of contemplative practice, it is possible for us to shape our own thoughts in a similar way for greater happiness, love, compassion, and wisdom.
Buddha's Brain joins the forces of modern neuroscience with ancient contemplative teachings to show readers how they can work toward greater emotional well-being, healthier relationships, more effective actions, and deepened religious and spiritual understanding. This book will explain how the core elements of both psychological well-being and religious or spiritual life-virtue, mindfulness, and wisdom-are based in the core functions of the brain: regulating, learning, and valuing. Readers will also learn practical ways to apply this information, as the book offers many exercises they can do to tap the unused potential of the brain and rewire it over time for greater peace and well-being.
DVD - The Practical Neuroscience of Buddha's Brain: Happiness, Love & Wisdom
NOTE: The seminar manual, CE information, and CE test are contained on disc #1 in PDF format. To access these documents, play disc #1 in your computer. For the video presentation, begin playing disc #1 in your DVD player.
Today’s unprecedented meeting of modern brain science and ancient contemplative wisdom offers you powerful new tools for changing the neural wiring and neurochemistry of the brain.
In this seminar, learn how to use contemplative neuroscience in down-to-earth ways to...
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Weave positive experiences into the fabric of the brain and self
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Stimulate and strengthen the neural circuits of empathy
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Help clients become more mindful
OBJECTIVES
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Describe major mechanisms of neuroplasticity
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Explain how to build self-compassion into the brain
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Describe the evolutionary basis of the brain’s negativity bias
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Summarize the three basic steps of “taking in the good” (TIG)
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Integrate the fourth step of TIG to heal painful experiences
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Explain how to activate contentment, belonging and peace
OUTLINE
The Promise of Self-Directed Neuroplasticity
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How the mind changes the brain
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Lessons from 2,500 years of meditative practice
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Neural circuits of self-compassion
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Getting on your own side
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Virtue, mindfulness, and wisdom—resting on the neural functions of regulating, learning and selecting
The Challenge of Evolution
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Chasing carrots and dodging sticks
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The negativity bias of the brain
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How that bias undermines psychotherapy
The Power of Implicit Memory
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Memory systems, explicit and implicit
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The importance of inner resources
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Factors of neuroplasticity
Taking in the Good
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Turning good facts into good experiences
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Savoring positive emotions and perspectives
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Priming implicit memory systems
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Working with children
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Why it’s good to feel good
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Living gratefully
Clearing Old Pain
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Exploiting the “weak link” in memory consolidation
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Pairing positive experiences with old pain
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Special considerations for trauma
Natural Happiness
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The resting state of the brain: Calm, contented, caring
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The brain’s three motivational systems: Approach, Attach, Avoid
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The reactive mode of greed, heartache and hatred (broadly defined)
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How to build up the neural circuits of the responsive mode of gladness, love and peace
ABOUT RICK HANSON, Ph.D.
Rick Hanson, Ph.D. is a neuropsychologist with 25 years of experience in outpatient mental health. A summa cum laude graduate of UCLA, he founded the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom and teaches at universities and meditation centers in Europe, Australia and North America. His work has been featured on the BBC and in Consumer Reports Health, U.S. News and World Report and other major magazines.
Rick’s most recent book is Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom (with Rick Mendius, M.D.; foreword by Dan Siegel, M.D. and preface by Jack Kornfield, Ph.D.), which has been praised by numerous therapists and teachers, including Tara Brach, Ph.D.; Roger Walsh, Ph.D.; Sharon Salzberg and Fred Luskin, Ph.D. Considered an expert on self-directed neuroplasticity, his articles have appeared in Tricycle Magazine, Insight Journal and Inquiring Mind, and his Your Wise Brain blog is on PsychologyToday.com and other major websites. He has a chapter—”7 Facts about the Brain That Incline the Mind to Joy”—in Measuring the Immeasurable, as well as several audio programs with Sounds True. His first book was Mother Nurture: A Mother’s Guide to Health in Body, Mind, and Intimate Relationships (Penguin, 2002).
Rick is currently a trustee of Saybrook university, after serving on the board of Spirit Rock Meditation Center for nine years; he was also President of the Board of FamilyWorks, a community agency.
CONTINUING EDUCATION INFORMATION - DVD
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