Stress-Proof Your Brain: Meditations to Rewire Neural Pathways for Stress Relief and Unconditional Happiness

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 information 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 responsesTechniques for using memory to soothe and release painful feelings of sadness, guilt, anxiety, inadequacy, or angerGuided meditations for calming chronic worries, developing gratitude, building inner strength, and moreHow 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 systemsDescribe ways in which survival reflexes can do more harm than goodUtilize practices that deepen the neurological capacity for happiness and wellnessPractice guided exercises for calming chronic worries, developing gratitude, building inner strengthApply techniques that use memory to soothe and release painful feelings of sadness, guilt, anxiety, inadequacy, or angerPlan 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."