Stress-Proof Your Brain

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Train Your Brain for Happiness and Freedom from Chronic Stress Our brains have evolved powerful tools for coping with threats and danger—but in the face of modern stresses like inf ormation overload, money worries, and interpersonal conflicts, our survival reflexes can do more harm than good. To help you adapt your nervous system to the challenges of today's world, neuropsychologist Dr. Rick Hanson presents Stress-Proof Your Brain. Join him to learn research-based techniques and meditations that will literally reshape your brain to make you more resilient, confident, and peaceful, including: How to replace your brain's unhealthy reactions to stress with protective and self-nurturing responses Techniques for using memory to soothe and release painful feelings of sadness, guilt, anxiety, inadequacy, or anger Guided meditations for calming chronic worries, developing gratitude, building inner strength, and more How to rewire your brain away from frustration, heartache, fear, and anger toward contentment, love, and peace Course objectives: List some qualities of the affiliating, approaching and avoiding systems Describe ways in which survival reflexes can do more harm than good Utilize practices that deepen the neurological capacity for happiness and wellness Practice guided exercises for calming chronic worries, developing gratitude, building inner strength Apply techniques that use memory to soothe and release painful feelings of sadness, guilt, anxiety, inadequacy, or anger Plan to use meditation to reshape your brain and be more resilient, confident, and peaceful Modern brain research has helped us discover which contemplative practices have the most positive impact on our physical and mental health. With Stress-Proof Your Brain, Dr. Rick Hanson brings you scientifically sound tools for finding freedom from irritability, worry, and overwhelm—by deepening your neurological capacity for happiness and wellness. Show more