The latest findings in neuroscience offer us a wonderful operating manual for the human brain. We can infer from the latest research a clarifying understanding of the strengths — and liabilities — of our inbuilt, hard-wired neurological tendencies.

With that, and a toolbox of techniques based on that understanding, you can then use your mind and heart and behavior skillfully—and very effectively—to actually change your brain, gradually, over time.

This will naturally also change your mind over time in profound and real ways. Only in the last ten years or so has brain science acquired enough information to make this kind of insight possible.

Terry and Rick will dialog about “the paranoid trance” that human beings tend easily to fall into, and how we can understand ourselves to escape it for more freedom, happiness, and effectiveness in our lives.

About Rick Hanson:

Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a neuropsychologist and founder of theWellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom who 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. His most recent book is the bestselling Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom, which has been widely praised by scholars, therapists, and teachers and is now being translated and published in ten languages.

An authority on self-directed neuroplasticity, he edits the Wise Brain Bulletin, and his articles have appeared in Tricycle Magazine, Insight Journal, and Inquiring Mind, as well as Huffington Post, Psychology Today, and other major websites, His first book was Mother Nurture: A Mother’s Guide to Health in Body, Mind, and Intimate Relationships He began meditating in 1974, trained in several traditions, and leads a weekly meditation gathering. He and his wife have two children.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

The Awakening Brain with Dr. Rick Hanson

Sunday, October 3rd @ 5:00pm Pacific

Please Note: There will be a limited number of lines available on the live conference call, so we encourage you to listen online if possible. To make sure you can get through by phone, we encourage you to dial in early.

Join the Dialogue: At 6:00 p.m., we’ll open up the lines and you’ll have the opportunity to interact with us directly over the phone or via instant message. Here’s what to do:

  • To interact live by voice, dial into the conference line number and wait until we ask for a question from someone in your region, or
  • Send us your question via instant message in the teleseminar window on your computer
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We look forward to your attendance!

Sincerely,
The Beyond Awakening Team