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Rewire Your Brain for Bliss: The Neuroscience of Happiness! Dr. Dawson Church

Sep 2, 2020

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If you’re wanting to find greater peace even after incredible tragedy, then do we have the Bliss Brain show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Dr. Dawson Church, award-winning, breakthrough, best-selling author of such pioneering breakthroughs as “The Genie in Your Genes”, and a new unbelievable must-read all-time favorite, “Bliss Brain”

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about the neuroscience of remodeling your brain for resilience, creativity, and joy.

Key Points Discussed:

The shattering experience he and his wife went through as their home was engulfed by the California wildfire (03:48)
How compassion, joy, love, and other intangibles survive through tragedy (04:52)
Keeping his mind from going to a place of blaming himself (07:36)
How do you change your mind from the default negative pattern of thinking and find inner peace (9:27)
The inspiration that propelled Dr. Dawson Church to write his masterpiece of a book, Bliss Brain (11:14)
The gift of loss: Liberating yourself, rebuilding and rising up from a tragic experience (14:54)
Consciously choosing and deciding the energy you bring in after going through a life changing experience (17:27)
Post traumatic growth (20:51)
Training emotional regulation to your brain (neuro muscles): resilience, optimism, compassion (23:00)
How the default mode network in our brain functions (28:11)
The enlightenment circuit and being in a state of an awakened mind (33:48)
The advantages that come with being in a flow state you get from meditation (39:59)
Where do we begin to recondition our brains? (43:24)
How Dr. Dawson developed his EcoMeditation method in 2009 (45:44)
What’s a neuro-reconsolidation exercise? (48:13)
How to grow your neural networks (50:00)
How Dr. Dawson rewired his mind after his tragic experience with the california wildfire (54:47)
Where to find Dr. Dawson Church’s materials (58:18)
What’s a fire mirror? (59:38)
Feel peace as Dr. Church guides you through his EcoMeditation techniques (1:05:16)

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