Hardwiring Happiness The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence

there's a book called hardwiring happiness by Rick Hansen which is precisely about that

I think Hard Wiring Happiness by Rick Hansen is a really great book that it came out just a little bit before the podcast revolution, which is a shame because I think it would have really changed a lot of people.

What he basically says is that when good things happen, you should allow yourself to marinate in them as much as possible, even if it's just a small thing.

Rick Hanson's idea from hardwiring happiness

I'm on the board for the, given that I'm on the board, I really should know the name of it. ... He wrote Hardwiring Happiness.

Rick Hansen, who wrote Hardwiring Happiness, is 20, 25 years old. Hardcore neuroscience guy, Dharma teacher, meditation expert, life person. Fucking awesome intersection with all. And he has this wonderful acronym of HEAL. Have a positive experience. Enrich it.

Rick Hanson, if you're familiar with Rick from Hardwiring Happiness, I think he's just so great. You know, he's got this unique intersection of Dharma and Buddhist mindfulness stuff, and then the hardcore science behind the neurosciencey things.

Rick Hanson in this great book called Hardwiring Happiness, he says, absorb the experience. Imagine it sinking down into you and becoming a part of you.

Hardwiring Happiness by Rick Hansen and I'm really starting to lean into this despite the fact that I had him on the show four years ago allowing yourself to feel gratitude and enjoyment for things well done shortly after you do them reinforces the positive pattern of encouraging you to do it again and that is not something that should be taken lightly it is really really powerful.

Rick is a renowned neuropsychologist and bestselling author of books like Hardwiring Happiness.

The brain continually remodels itself.

The brain is evolving. It can change for the better or for the worse.

So if you learn how to learn, if you know how to harness the power of positive neuroplasticity, every day you can have a steeper of more vertical growth curve as you go through that day.

The green zone is when we feel that we are safe enough and satisfied enough and connected enough in this moment at least now and now and now.

If you do that 10 days in a row it'll change your life.

That's kind of the simple, you know, you open it up and you put the nozzle in and you pull the trigger and the gas goes in and you're good to go.

The green zone is when we feel that we are safe enough and satisfied enough and connected enough in this moment at least now and now and now.

That's my 10 minute challenge for you: a few times a day taking the good, second know the one thing in particular you're growing these days and therefore look for opportunities to experience that one thing and then take those experiences in.

If you do that it'll change your day because partly you'll be looking for things you can do over the day that'll change your whole day and um you'll go to bed feeling different.

it's the real value versus what ends up in the box and if you want to be super cool you can keep the box in your closet nobody needs to know that you have it it's your own little private box

The brain continually remodels itself. It's one of the concepts from it. Now I'm getting your books all blended together because you read a bunch and prep for this. I'm not even going to pretend I know which one that concept comes from. Let's just say all of them.

The green zone is when we feel that we are safe enough and satisfied enough and connected enough in this moment at least now and now and now and when we feel that that our basic needs for safety satisfaction and connection are sufficiently met in the moment our whole body moves out of the red zone the whole sympathetic fight flight freeze system starts calming stress hormones fade away the heart returns to a normal rate the whole visceral core of the body is not being strained and burdened and it settles down and our mind is colored in a broad sense in terms of those three needs with a feeling of peacefulness in terms of safety contentment in terms of satisfaction and in a word broadly love in terms of connection.