A Brain That Knows How To Be Happy with Rick Hanson, Ph.D.

MP3 Download Each day you face the highs and lows of your own state of mind, as well as the onslaught of external threats from terrorist alerts, earthquake warnings, and economic downturns. Your mind is in a constant state of arousal, and your happiness and your physical health pay the price. But Dr. Rick Hanson says that you have enormous power, not only to change your frame of mind, but to physically alter your body, and even the structure of your brain, by taking charge of your thoughts. He explains that “if one understands how the brain evolved to suffer, which it did, you can then go back into it and train it over time not to suffer so much, ultimately not to suffer at all, and to awaken into your own natural state of clarity and happiness and open-heartedness.” Happily, it’s much easier to make the shift than you might imagine, and in this interview he offers simple techniques you can use, in just a few minutes a day, to change your mind. What’s more, as Dr. Hanson tells us, “if