The Enlightened Brain

The Neuroscience of Awakening

De: Rick Hanson PhD

Narrado por: Rick Hanson PhD

Meditation Meets Neuroscience—Practical Tools to Reshape Your Brain for Awakening
We are inspired by the living example of great teachers, who have both penetrating insight and a loving heart. “With modern neuroscience, we’re now beginning to understand the brain processes that support these wonderful qualities of mind,” explains Dr. Rick Hanson. With The Enlightened Brain, this pioneering neuropsychologist explores how you can activate these same processes inside your own brain to accelerate your own transformation.

Self-Directed Neuroplasticity—How Our Mind Shapes Our Brain
Your thoughts and feelings continually sculpt your brain—for better or worse. As Dr. Hanson teaches, you can use the power of self-directed neuroplasticity to take control of the evolutionary tendency of your brain to react to life with fear, frustration, and heartache—and return your brain to its natural state of calm, contentment, and caring. With simple and potent practices, he reveals how you can weave positive thoughts and emotions into the fabric of your brain, allowing you to cultivate the qualities of mindfulness, virtue, and wisdom for your own path of awakening.

“This new science gives us unprecedented tools to individualize psychological growth and spiritual practice,” says Dr. Hanson. You’ll learn about your unique “profile of attention” and which methods best strengthen your focus and concentration. You’ll also learn how to approach life with equanimity and relax the focus on “me, myself, and I.” With The Enlightened Brain, Dr. Rick Hanson gives you practical tools for strengthening the neural circuitry of spacious awareness, calm in the midst of stress, contemplative absorption, resilience, and lasting happiness.

HIGHLIGHTS
• Knowing your brain—how to tailor psychological growth and spiritual practice to your unique neurophysiology
• Defeating the negativity bias of your brain by internalizing key resources
• Pairing positive experiences with negative material to soothe and heal old pain
• Activating the neural foundations of mindfulness
• Strengthening the five factors of concentration and deep meditative absorption
• Building neural shock absorbers for stable inner peace in a turbulent world
• Using neuroscience to relax the apparent self and take life less personally

Course objectives:
• Explain how to tailor psychological growth and spiritual practice to your unique neurophysiology.
• Summarize how to defeat the negativity bias of your brain by internalizing key resources.
• Practice pairing positive experiences with negative material to soothe and heal old pain.
• Apply techniques to activate the neural foundations of mindfulness.
• Practice strengthening the five factors of concentration and deep meditative absorption.
• Utilize exercises to build neural shock absorbers for stable inner peace in a turbulent world.

Excellent presentation

Excellent presentation, creative encouragement, educated teaching, and a mindful gift to all who listen. Thank you

Keep going!

Thank you Rick! I just finished this audio book and am going to start over and listen again. Wonderful explanations and guidance for those interested in having some enlightenment in your life. The important advice at the end is to keep going with your meditations and practices. Enlightenment makes life easier.

A really good therapy session

The narrator's voice is so relaxing!

I would definitely recommend listening to this book and try to practice the meditation exercises along with it.

i love this book

i absolutely love this book. listened to it a couple of times, and went back and created a yoga class sequence for a student of mine that was 10 weeks. i grew, and he grew and loved it as well. great things to take into everyday life, and great ways to get the right perspective for breakthroughs and "revelations of the obvious".

Practical and evidence based for all meditators

easy to understand, practical and clear. great for call who are interested in advancing their practice and also expanding their knowledge base. Hanson has a clear, smooth and concise style and a beer soothing voice.