Don’t miss one of this summer’s most fascinating, free webinars, Your Buddha Brain: Beyond Evolutionary Survival Toward Love, Peace and Happiness with featured speaker neuropsychologist Rick Hanson, Ph.D. and hosted by IHM’s Jeff Goelitz.
Hanson will discuss his book, Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom, and he will describe practical methods for centering your brain in its natural state of gladness, love and peace. During the webinar, he will give brain-savvy tips for reducing anxiety and irritability, feeling stronger and safer and clearing old pain.
Hanson says programming deep in the brain is caused by ancestral survival strategies, which lead the brain and limbic system to assign more weight to negative experiences than positive ones. He believes understanding the neuroscience behind this process, that we are "swimming against ancient currents within our nervous system," can help humans show themselves greater compassion. Hanson says cultivating mindfulness and positive emotions such as equanimity, compassion, gratitude and joy can aid us in moving beyond the limitations of this evolutionary programming.
Goelitz, who, along with his other work gives training programs in HeartMath principles and techniques, will relate these to Hanson’s book, Buddha’s Brian: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom.
Webinar topics:
- Basic brain structures and how they influence behavior.
- Using your mind to improve your brain.
- Survival by paper tiger paranoia.
- Using positive experiences to clear old pain.
- The power of the Buddhist practices of equanimity, compassion and peace.
- Take the fruit as the path by building neural circuits of happiness.
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Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a neuropsychologist and author of Buddha’s Brian: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom, published in 23 languages. Hanson founded the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom. He is an authority on self-directed neuroplasticity, an affiliate of the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley and has taught in meditation centers worldwide. He has spoken at Oxford, Stanford and Harvard universities.
Jeff Goelitz is a program developer, senior trainer and education specialist for the Institute of HeartMath. Goelitz consults regularly with school and college professionals in the United States to improve classroom climate and performance. He has created and contributed to numerous educational curricula and programs and co-authored Using emWave Technology For Children With ADHD and the recently released The College De-Stress Handbook.
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