Podcast
10% Happier with Dan Harris
The book, which focuses on sense foraging, aims to help people escape the default mode network, or 'house of habit,' and move towards flourishing by intentionally paying attention to the senses.
They have a new book out called Better in Every Sense, and in it they describe something they call sense foraging, which is a simple but very powerful practice designed to use our senses to turn down...
— Episode: How To Escape Your Brain's Default Mode...
Episode: How To Escape Your Brain's Default Mode Network |...
The book, which focuses on sense foraging, aims to help people escape the default mode network, or 'house of habit,' and move towards flourishing by intentionally paying attention to the senses.
They have a new book out called Better in Every Sense, and in it they describe something they call sense foraging, which is a simple but very powerful practice designed to use our senses to turn down the more noxious aspects of the default mode network, like being overly focused on ourselves or not receptive to change or newness in the world around us.
We talk about what sense foraging is exactly and how it can help us go from languishing to flourishing, how shutting down our senses can make us more vulnerable to depression, the differences and similarities between sense foraging and mindfulness, why counterintuitively most of us could use a little bit more chaos in our lives, how radical acceptance can be a starting point for sense foraging and the nine simple rules to sense foraging.
So we're trying to find ways to have accurate models of the world, and in doing so, we want to discount things that are going to disrupt our models and try to have a sense that we're in control, we know what's going on, and that can come at the expense of surprise, new connection, and change in general.
The DMN, that's your shorthand for default mode network, the DMN's mental routines evolved to help us survive long enough to reproduce, but they are agnostic when it comes to our individual well-being.
The default mode network, for sure. It's absolutely essential. I would say it's not voluntary that we have mental habits, that we have an internal narrative, that we have a sense of where we are in the world and some personal sense of identity.