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The Fake News of Your Own Mind — with Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman

Your Undivided Attention

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The Negative Bias of the Brain

Nero scientists have identified what is called the negative bias of the brain, and its survival mechanism to look for all the possible dangers. And so we need to actually actively work with because the default,. you know, as you said, you're not even trying do that. Is just happening because the brain is wired to help survive. But these are not no individual predrs. These are massive. To understand that this istat this is the brain's effort to take care of us itis actually the activity of compassion. It's just that it doesn't work. It's not really hawful.

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