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  • The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence
  • Written by: Rick Hanson
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  • Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
  • 2.5 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Hardwiring Happiness

Written by: Rick Hanson
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Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence shows you how to tap the hidden power of everyday experiences to change your brain and your life for the better.

This bias evolved to help ancient animals survive, but today it makes us feel needlessly frazzled, worried, irritated, lonely, inadequate, and blue. Instead, in just a few seconds at a time in the flow of daily life, you can turn your experiences - the pleasure in a cup of coffee, the accomplishment in finishing a tricky email, the warmth from a friend's smile - into lasting inner strengths built into your brain, such as resilience, balance, and positive emotions.

Grounded in neuroscience, Hardwiring Happiness is super-practical, full of easy-to-use methods and guided practices to grow a steady well-being, self-worth, and inner peace. And it has special sections on children, motivation, relationships, trauma, and spiritual practice.

The program also covers managing the Stone Age brain for life in the 21st century. It tells you how to take in experiences of your core needs being met, so that you gradually leave the "red zone" of fight-flight-freeze stress and get centered in the brain's "green zone" in which you feel an ongoing ease, fulfillment, and love - even while you deal with life's challenges.

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wish I would have read the other review

While I absolutely love Rick Hanson and found there to be some good content in here, it was not clear when I purchased this that it was not the same as the book. I was assigned the book as reading for a course that I'm taking, and decided to get the audio version instead. This is only a couple hour lecture he gave somewhere, not the book.

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Not hardwiring happiness

This is not the book, it is 2 hours of him talking his
background about the principlesof the book.

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Excellent

Excellent way of wording and discussion of the brain, neural plasticity and beginning the training/ reprogramming process. Thank you!

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Not the book

How can Audible list this as audio of the book? It has some interesting content but is just a recording of a conference presentation. I should receive a refund for using a credit to purchase.

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