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Trusting the Gold - A Celebration of Tara’s New Book, with guest, Rick Hanson

Tara Brach

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The Hard Wiring of the Basic Goodness

Biological evolution continues. It's slower than cultural evolution and so here's a funny thing. No one had blue eyes until four or five thousand years ago. So we're not designed to be so separated from each other. That's totally counter mother nature's plan. We are very vulnerable to what scientists call the brain's negativity bias which because of our advanced capabilities to reflect upon the past and imagine the future unlike lizard's mice and monkeys who live really very much in the present. I'm taken by what you said that we are meant to be in small groups of 40, 50, 60, whatever and we're either isolated or else in much larger and getting lost communities. To even

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